Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

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, ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster ...

Radiation levels at the site were within "normal limits," authorities reported, adding that firefighters were working to contain the blaze. View on euronews ...