The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was undoubtedly the worst nuclear disaster in history. The Chernobyl disaster claimed 30 lives directly and, according to many experts, thousands ...

Top Ukrainian officials have called on the United Nations to take immediate action to prevent a "nuclear catastrophe" by demilitarizing Russian forces that have occupied the Chernobyl exclusion zone. ...

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 ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...

Ukrainian officials said Sunday that power is restored at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, averting a “possible nuclear catastrophe.” Officials had warned on Wednesday that damage by Russian troops caused ...

VLADIMIR Putin could trigger the “worst disaster in Europe ever” at an occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine where “a million ...

AP reports -- "The Chernobyl disaster underscored that mankind must be extra careful in using nuclear technologies," Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych said during a ceremony Thursday inaugurating ...

This toxic zone is now crawling with life no one expected.

A viral photograph on Reddit claimed to show one of the first photographs taken at Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The post claimed it was shot 14 ...