On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...
The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power ...
The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on ...
A Russian drone hit the steel shelter covering part of the Chernobyl nuclear plant on the morning of Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said that a “high-explosive warhead” ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
The New Safe Confinement structure over Reactor 4 allows scientists unprecedented access to a site long shrouded in danger. This piece details the radioactive debris, damaged core, and containment ...
Ukrainian nuclear safety experts have told RFE/RL it will "take time" and "significant funds" to repair damage to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's protective shield. Ukrainian officials said ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...
Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...