(Image credit: Getty) Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in an inaccessible basement of the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to news reports.

The Chernobyl disaster took place in 1986, when a Russian power plant in Ukraine burst open, ejecting lethal nuclear matter into the Earth’s atmosphere. The plant’s reactor has been covered ...

Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few months after the disaster Deaths and damage One of the plant's reactors, number four, exploded, emitting vast quantities of radiation.