Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's radioactive legacy is far from over.

Three decades after the nuclear disaster there, the name Chernobyl still inspires dread. When an explosion tore through Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl power plant on April 26, 1986, it was the worst ...

Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident. The effects of the disaster are still felt today. On April 26, 1986, a reactor exploded at a nuclear ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard The success of an American television show about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has led to a sharp increase in ...

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360° Video: Step inside the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster left it uninhabitable. It’s the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, responsible for ...

Back in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened and caused a lot of environmental disasters and death. But if it had ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Since the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, 34 years have passed. This accident, the largest ever in a nuclear facility, led to the creation of a 4,700 km² exclusion zone ...

Thirty years ago, the sky glowed at the edge of Ukraine. An ill-conceived and bungled safety test had gone critical at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Steam explosions blew the roof off Reactor ...