A look at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in numbers

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 09:30 in Physics & Chemistry

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) -- Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world's worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986:...

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