The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured ...

The Chernobyl disaster hour by hour, explained by a nuclear engineer with insights into what really happened. #Chernobyl ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities ...

Pope Leo XIV called for responsible use of atomic energy on Sunday, the 40 th anniversary of the Soviet-era disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. More than two dozen people died in ...

The reactors at the Chernobyl and ZNPP stations differ in design and levels of containment. Yet as we learned from the nuclear accident in 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, precipitated by an earthquake and ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukrainian SSR (WCSC) — Sunday marks 40 years since the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat in Ukraine. In 1986, an explosion and fire at the power plant ...

LONDON — More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, cows far from the accident site still produce milk with dangerous levels of radiation, children still drink it and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...