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Twitter explodes after TIME calls Kakhovka dam collapse 'Ukraine's Chernobyl'

Social media users mocked a TIME article, which compared the Kakhovka dam collapse to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, for forgetting that Chernobyl is in Ukraine.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The remnants of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A resident extinguishes a fire after a bombing destroyed a family home in a northern district of Kharkiv as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.

Ukraine-Russia War: Reported firing at Kharkiv nuclear research facility

Russia was conducting drills on islands claimed by Tokyo. * Russian forces have invaded the town of Slavutych and seized the city hospital.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka.

Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear 'dirty bomb'

Russian news agencies quoted 'a representative of a competent body' in Russia on Sunday as saying Ukraine was developing nuclear weapons at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

|ByREUTERS
Member of Iranian civil defense team sprays disinfectant while sanitizing a truck, after the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran partially.

Is coronavirus Iran’s Chernobyl? – opinion

While Gorbachev himself highlighted that Chernobyl was the straw that broke the camel’s back, the road toward implosion was paved long in advance.

|ByETHAN SHEINKER

New fires fanned by strong winds flare near Chernobyl in Ukraine

More than 1,000 people are involved in trying to extinguish the fires.

APRIL 16, 2020ByREUTERS
A view shows burning trees and a road covered in heavy smoke in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Israeli company wants to invest in cell-based treatment for nuclear exposure

The therapy, known as PLX-R18 – 18 stands for life – is derived from a placenta after full-term delivery.

DECEMBER 6, 2017ByMAAYAN HOFFMAN
A man stands in front of a fully burned elementary school near the the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.