The Chernobyl power plant ceased all operations in 2000, and its ruined reactor has since been encased in a massive protective dome. No one is allowed to live within 30 kilometres of the facility.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s nuclear regulatory agency says the radiation monitors around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst meltdown in 1986, have stopped working.

Chernobyl radiation spikes could pose a threat to millions in Europe as Russian bomb attacks cause dozens of wildfires across Ukraine. Kyiv officials say at least 31 blazes in the exclusion zone ...

About 116,000 people were evacuated from a 1,600 square mile zone around Chernobyl, on the border of Ukraine and Belarus, after the nuclear power plant there exploded.

Greenpeace said Monday that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where radiation levels remain dangerously high decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, scientists have discovered an organism defying the odds. A black ...

The scientists determined that the Chernobyl dogs form packs and live near each other — unlike their wolf ancestors — and have learned to modify their movements based on human activity.

07:44, Wed, Feb 12, 2020 Updated: 15:38, Wed, Feb 12, 2020 Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor exploded in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, killed 31 people and resulted in the mass evacuation and abandonment ...