{"id":51344,"date":"2026-04-26T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-visits-chernobyl-ghost-city-40-years-after-worlds-worst-nuclear-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:53:43","slug":"bbc-visits-chernobyl-ghost-city-40-years-after-worlds-worst-nuclear-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-visits-chernobyl-ghost-city-40-years-after-worlds-worst-nuclear-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world’s worst nuclear accident"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On Sunday, Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Reactor number 4 at the plant exploded on 26 April 1986, spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe. <\/p>\n

The official death toll from the incident in Chornobyl – as it is known in Ukrainian – is 31, but the wider impact of the accident remains contested and difficult to determine. <\/p>\n

In 2005, a study by several UN agencies concluded 4,000 people could die as a result of the accident. Other estimates suggest the number could be higher. <\/p>\n

The BBC’s Jessica Parker visited the nearby city of Pripyat where Chernobyl’s workers lived, but was abandoned shortly after the disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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On Sunday, Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Reactor number 4 at the plant exploded on 26 April 1986, spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe. The official death toll from the incident in Chornobyl – as it is known in Ukrainian – is 31, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51346,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344\/revisions\/51346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}