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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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: High radiation levels found in Belarus milk, 30 years after disaster By Yuras Karmanau The Associated Press Posted April 25, 2016 11:04 am Updated April 25, 2016 11:19 am ...

The Chernobyl site in northern Ukraine has been filled with deadly radiation since the 1986 nuclear meltdown, but a new study shows that microscopic worms at the site seem to be unaffected by the ...

Thirteen years after Canada and other nations pledged $768-million to render the destroyed nuclear reactor safe, the cost has ballooned to $2-billion and the job still isn't done ...

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 two landmark studies, researchers have used cutting-edge genomic tools to investigate the potential health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, a known carcinogen, from the 1986 accident at ...