"Hearst Magazines and AOL 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 ...

In 2018, I explored the haunting Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, documenting the abandoned city of Pripyat, the power plant ...

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, has documented the lasting impact of the Chernobyl disaster since the catastrophic event on April 26, 1986. Living in Kyiv at the ...

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 ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus has made significant efforts to tackle radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, CIS First Deputy Secretary General Igor Petrishenko said during ...

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released massive radiation and affected millions. Dozens died immediately, with thousands more linked to long-term effects. The area remains restricted as cleanup continues ...

Pope Leo XIV called for responsible use of atomic energy on Sunday, the 40 th anniversary of the Soviet-era disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. More than two dozen people died in ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...