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

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a searchlight illuminates the damages of a protective shell over the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following a drone ...

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

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

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists discovered strange populations of dogs surviving deep inside one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Some animals developed unusual ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...