I was woken up by a phone call from Ukrainian national radio in the middle of the night. The concerned voice informed me that combat was raging at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the largest in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Haunting scenes of the death, destruction and sickness that followed the Chernobyl meltdown 36 ...

The region’s radiation can still be unpredictable—it clusters in “hot spots” rather than in one spread-out area—and can get kicked up if the land is disturbed. Last year, two wildfires broke out in ...

A quarter-century after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, a week of meetings on the world's worst nuclear accident pressed home the message that the Chernobyl cleanup will remain expensive and ...

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, local residents were forced to permanently evacuate, leaving behind their homes and, in some cases, their pets. Concerned ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) - Victims of the Chernobyl disaster were commemorated in Minsk on 26 April. The leaders and employees of various ministries and departments laid flowers at the Chernobyl ...