Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown ...

The Duga system, built near the infamous Chernobyl Power Plant, is a towering relic of the Cold War.

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive contamination ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of the photographs that Brook Ward, president of UPMC Washington and Greene ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the ...

More than three decades after the worst nuclear accident in history, workers are still scrambling to prevent the spread of radiation. On April 26, 1986, the core of a reactor opened at the Chernobyl ...

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