On April 26, 1986, a fire and explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor north of Kiev, Ukraine, resulted in ...

The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Nuclear power wasn't the problem in Chernobyl. The problem was communism. The post Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian ...

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 in 1986 continues to shape global ...