When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

Khaberni - Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, a new study reveals clear evidence of some effects of radiation exposure being passed to the next generation. Research ...

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...