The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the New Safe Confinement structure that was built to shield the damaged Reactor No. 4, ...

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

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 ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four ...

Denys Khomenko betrays no emotion recalling the night last year when a Russian strike drone tore into the protective arc ...

Russia has repeatedly launched drones and missiles on a flight path near the disused Chernobyl nuclear plant during attacks on Ukraine, elevating the risk of a major accident, Ukraine’s top state ...

RUSSIAN missiles flying near to the Chernobyl nuclear plant are risking a “major accident”, Ukraine has said. A top state ...

Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, ...

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...