Chernobyl
Explore Chernobyl on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- The safety test that destroyed Reactor 4 (1986)
- Pripyat is evacuated (1986)
- A Swedish alarm exposes the secret (1986)
- The liquidators (1986)
- The first responders take fatal doses (1986)
- The sarcophagus seals Reactor 4 (1986)
- Gorbachev breaks the silence (1986)
- The Chernobyl exclusion zone (1986)
- Three Mile Island accident (1979)
- Gorbachev's leadership of the Soviet Union (1985)