On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

The so-called exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was once home to some 120,000 people, who were evacuated following the reactor meltdown at in 1986.

More than 30 years after the catastrophic nuclear accident that led to 31 directly-related deaths and is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in recorded history, Chernobyl is getting ...

Untouched:A visitor touring the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant takes a photo through a window looking towards facilities that house Reactors Nos. 1 and 2.

The structure was placed on top of the plant's reactor No. 2. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said that the new shelter, which costs about 1.5 billion euros, measures 843 feet ...

What was supposed to be a standard safety test, ended up with the explosion of reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

Chernobyl echoes 2 decades later. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. ... Arriving by helicopter at the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant for commemorations of the catastrophe’s ...

A Russian drone struck the containment shell protecting the radioactive reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine claimed Friday morning causing significant damage. The protective ...

A Russian drone struck the containment shell protecting the radioactive reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing significant damage, Ukraine claimed Friday morning. The protective ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

The world's worst nuclear accident, at Chernobyl in April 1986, was all the more alarming for taking place under a veil of secrecy, behind the Iron Curtain. One of four reactors at the Chernobyl ...

Before the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP, spelled ‘Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) disaster in 1986, there had been little need for radiation-resistant robots to venture into high-risk … ...