The World's Most Radioactive Places

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | Chernobyl, Ukraine

The infamous nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April 1986 cost an estimated $18 billion and exposed over six million people to dangerous levels of radiation. The disaster released more than 400 times the amount of radioactive material that the bombing of Hiroshima did. It's estimated that 93,000 deaths could be attributed to its long term effects on people's health.