NEW VIDEO!! Back in late August during our visit to Ukraine, our friend and longtime subscriber Lucas (he is a radiation specialist) gave us all an exclusive tour of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which included an inside look at nuclear reactor #3. We were right next to reactor #4 that exploded back in 1986 during the Chernobyl disaster, which is the main subject of the hit Chernobyl documentary series on HBO. My friend Todd Konitzer filmed and produced an amazing vlog-style video, taking y

Chernobyl — The Nuclear Disaster, Minute by Minute… It started like a quiet night… until 1:23 AM, when Reactor 4 tore itself apart in a flash brighter than sunrise. In seconds, the roof was blown off. In minutes, graphite-firestorms rained radioactive ash over the city. By the hour mark, firefighters — unaware they were walking into death — were picking up burning debris with their bare hands. By sunrise, the air itself was poison… and by the end of the day, an entire region would never be the s