Photos of 30 years of disaster Chernobyl nuclear power plant

30 years ago on April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, which later became part of the Soviet Union.

Radioactive substances sprayed into the air when a terrible explosion occurred, causing pollution across the borders of Ukraine, into Russia, Belarus, and a large part of Northern Europe. More than 30 people were killed on the spot when disaster struck and the spread of radioactivity caused many deaths and illnesses. More than 350,000 people have been evacuated from contaminated areas during the years following the disaster.

Let us see some images of Chernobyl stored in history and today.

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A group of engineers are measuring the terrain at the construction sites of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, June 6, 1971.

Construction of Chernobyl nuclear power plant, July 1, 1975.

Monument "Taming of the Fire" on Kurchatov street, for builders of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, December 1, 1979.

Inside the Chernobyl atomic plant, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, in the early 1980s.

Chernobyl reactors after the explosion, April 26, 1986.

A child has a thyroid test at Minsk's northern children's hospital, where children near the Chernobyl nuclear plant have leukemia and the disease is thought to result from exposure to radiation. emitted in the accident in 1986

Continue the radiation test in this place on March 4, 1991.

A research team tested radiation back to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant five years after the explosion, April 1991.

Photographer Toby Batchelor visited the remnants of nuclear power plants in 2014, taking desolate photos and the gloomy cold air.