Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

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 ...

The brand new four-part series Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown premieres on CNN Sunday, March 1 at 9/8c. Across the span of four episodes, the new CNN original series will examine the world’s worst ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed attention to nuclear power and its future.

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

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 ...

Have the canines acquired strange mutations living near the power plant?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...