The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yet The dosimeter clipped to your chest ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. A Ukrainian soldier taking ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's 4-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst ...

The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On October 24, 1960, a Soviet R-16 ICBM exploded on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan. The explosion occurred when the ...

Today, Russia's war on Ukraine has increased the risk of another nuclear disaster. On March 4, 2022, Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in southeastern Ukraine, the largest ...

Ukraine said early Sunday that Russia struck areas near the Chernobyl nuclear facility, hitting a building that holds spent ...