In the eerie silence of the abandoned city of Prypiat, time seems to stand still. Amidst the haunting remnants of daily life ...

This weekend marks the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but we have never been closer to a repeat of the ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster. BBC News Our World: In the Shadow of Chernobyl - Watch Victoria Gill's full ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the ... to "confine" the reactor's radioactive remains. The drone started a fire that caused ...