<p>The explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is not only a story of the past. Right now, nuclear plants are weaponised in the Iran war. It happened in 2022 when Russian forces occupied the Chernobyl exclusion zone. A new way of weaponising nuclear power. What have we learned from the worst nuclear accident in history — and what have we failed to learn?</p><p>This conversation was presented by the <a href="https://www.thersa.org/events/2026/04/40-years-on-chornobyls-legacy-and-european-environmental-security/">Royal Society of Arts</a> (RSA) and the <a href="https://uil.org.uk/">Ukrainian Institute London</a>.</p><p>Speakers</p><p><a href="https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii">Serhii Plokhy</a>Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University</p><p><a href="https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/professor-egle-rindzeviciute">Eglė Rindzevičiūtė</a>Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University London</p><p><a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jonathon-j-turnbull/">Jonathon Turnbull</a>Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Durham University</p><p><a href="https://www.sashadovzhyk.com/">Dr Sasha Dovzhyk</a> (host)Writer, Curator and Head of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange (Lviv, Ukraine). Editor of the London Ukrainian Review</p>