After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

In 2018.. I stepped inside one of the most haunting places on Earth — Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Eight years ago, I filmed a full exploration across multiple videos inside the abandoned city of Pripyat ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - A view shows the destroyed Reactor Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the catastrophic explosion. ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...

Zelenskyy condemned the Russian strike on the nuclear fuel storage facility near Chornobyl as "extremely vile". No radiation spike was reported.

Nataliia Khodymchuk’s last evening at home was like many that had come before. She stayed in the neat confines of her three-bedroom apartment in Kyiv, slicing garlic to preserve and knitting socks and ...

All of the Chernobyl reactors were shut down in 2000. Reactor No. 4 was sealed under a sarcophagus and is surrounded by a nearly 20-mile exclusion zone. The damaged reactor will stay radioactive for ...