The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

Thirty years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released far more radioactivity than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan did, forcing the resettlement of more than 350,000 ...

Chernobyl’s landscape recovered in unexpected ways, but uneven radiation, hidden harm, and human absence reveal a far more ...

HBO has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming five-part miniseries about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station was destroyed by an explosion. The resulting environmental disaster has rendered the area surrounding the ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine – Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A look at numbers ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.