April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

In the Ukrainian capital, the 'Chernobyl House' shelters survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, now confronted with Russian ...

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 ...

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's ...

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

A study of six Chernobyl particles found their nuclear fuel structures largely intact after 40 years, shedding light on ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, scientists have found that radioactive particles released from the reactor remain ...

Back in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened and caused a lot of environmental disasters and death. But if it had been up to Russia, they would have swept the incident under the rug and ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...