The night of April 26 in 1986, is regarded as the darkest night for the Soviet Union as a massive nuclear explosion occurred in the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear plant at Ukraine s Pripyat city.
Ukraine has an aging fleet of 15 reactors two-thirds of which have now exceeded, or are at, their design life use-by date. This is fuelling concern in the current war writes Dave Sweeney.