Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/reporting-on-chernobyl-25-years-later Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story As the world’s attention remains transfixed on the crippled nuclear reactors in Japan, Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien approaches nuclear energy from another side of the world: the Ukraine.The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986. With the anniversary of that date approaching, Miles has spent the last week surveying the situation there.