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

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.

We go deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant and the surrounding exclusion zone, recounting the history of the accident on April 26 1986, and speaking with plant workers who were on shift that ...

Ukraine says Russia hit a fuel storage building at the Chernobyl nuclear plant as International Atomic Energy Agency chief ...

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

Ukraine said early Sunday that Russia struck areas near the Chernobyl nuclear facility, hitting a building that holds spent ...

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...

Russia hasn’t publicly commented on the alleged attack on the ‌facility, which is around ‌9 miles from the Chernobyl plant, ...