Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and history of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters make it seem like a place ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up ...

Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

Scientists are studying the dogs living around the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. “They are primarily the descendants of the animals that were left behind at the time of the evacuation during the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...