In the shadow of Reactor 4, where the 1986 Chernobyl explosion unleashed history's worst nuclear catastrophe, hundreds of ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

HBO has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming five-part miniseries about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, ...

Thirty years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released far more radioactivity than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan did, forcing the resettlement of more than 350,000 ...

Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown — the world's worst nuclear accident — authorities cordoned off the most contaminated areas around the Ukrainian power plant. That restricted land, known as the ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine – Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A look at numbers ...

For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the Chernobyl exclusion zone: 2,600 square kilometres of contaminated land and the most visible legacy of the worst nuclear accident in human ...

Instruments monitoring Chernobyl's entombed carcass have detected a gradual increase in neutrons streaming from the plant - a sign of nuclear fission reactions - over the past five years. Scientists ...