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 ...

Chernobyl forest fire triggers radiation spike around nuclear plant By Josh K. Elliott Global News Posted April 6, 2020 10:35 am 2 min read ...

Professor Jim Smith, from the University of Portsmouth, said: "This research is important for communities affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Since 1986 there has been a lot of misinformation about ...

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.

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 ...