Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The ...

Fourteen years after the world's worst peacetime nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been shut down. At about 6 a.m. EST Friday, Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma ordered the ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

It is the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and now Ukrainian officials say that the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is under Russian control. The reactor at Chernobyl ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

Join the conversation Chernobyl. Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images Even more than 30 years after a devastating nuclear accident, Chernobyl is still one of the most radioactive places on Earth.

The Ukrainian government is seeking UNESCO status former site of the 1986 nuclear explosion in hopes of bolstering tourism. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst civil nuclear catastrophe when one of its four reactors exploded in 1986. That reactor is now enveloped by a protective shelter to contain the lingering ...