Radioactive ruins

Ben Fogle visits the site of the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster in Ukraine…

- SEAN MARLAND, STEVEN PERKIN

On the evening of 26 April 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent clouds of radioactive material into the air, in history’s worst-ever nuclear disaster.

The area is still uninhabitable almost 35 years on, yet in this special film Ben Fogle spends a week inside Chernobyl’s vast exclusion zone and even visits the burnt remains of Reactor No.4.