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

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

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...

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

A man lay flowers at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in Slavutych on 25 April 2026.

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 ...

A protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...