The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. By Kim Barker and Brendan Hoffman ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Unlike the nuclear crisis in Japan which was caused by a natural disaster, the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl power plant on April 26, 1986 ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency says that power was restored on Thursday morning to the New Safe Confinement at ...

The site of Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant -- partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown -- lost power on Wednesday ...

The Russian air force has bombed a substation in Ukraine. This caused a power cut at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

KOROSTEN, Ukraine -- Ukrainian health officials expressed concern Thursday about an ever-increasing number of Chernobyl-related cancer cases, as the government pushed to start rebuilding on land ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Thirty-six years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with ...

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 ...