For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

Slavutych was built from the ground up in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. Located about 45 kilome ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

In this fascinating exploration, we delve into SKALA—the specialized computer system used to control and monitor the Chernobyl nuclear reactor before the infamous disaster. SKALA was designed to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday warned Russia was using nuclear power plants to "blackmail" the world, speaking on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. "Thirty-seven ...

After the disaster at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, scientists working in the ruined remains of reactor four discovered ...

A study reveals that dogs living near the Chernobyl reactor do not show nuclear mutations, pointing to other environmental ...

For the leader of the USSR at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev, the disaster wrought history anew. Rather than the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Chernobyl was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse o ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of ...

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation ...

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian authorities have registered over 8,000 cases of destruction to ...