An electrical outage at Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has taken spent fuel cooling systems offline, leading to a potential risk of overheating and the release of dangerous levels of ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

Drones have landed dangerously close to nuclear power plants throughout the war.

What once seemed unthinkable — strikes on nuclear facilities and other hazardous sites — has now become reality,” said Oleh ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. Five worst nuclear reactor disasters 1.

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt.

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the ...