On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.

Russian troops have been engaged in fighting near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the site has been taken by Russian forces. The invasion has raised questions about ...

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster befell the Chernobyl, Ukraine Power Plant. Unlike the 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear crisis, the Chernobyl ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

In April 1986 — 35 years ago this week — some 30 people were killed when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, in ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

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

The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covers the destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on November 29, 2016 in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Before Russian troops crossed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burnt trees are seen in the Chernobyl zone close to the Ukraine-Belarus border crossing on Feb. 13, 2022, in Vilcha, Ukraine. On ...