At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl's nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world's worst ...

Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown - the world's worst nuclear accident - authorities cordoned off the most contaminated areas around the Ukrainian power plant. That restricted land ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a ...

Servicemen of Ukrainian National Guard patrol area near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Chernobyl, Ukraine April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich REFILE ...

Preservation Liberation Day Is Here One of the dumber responses to HBO’s just-completed Chernobyl miniseries — discussed by Kyle Smith on the homepage today – is that somehow it’s unfairly ...

A charity providing respite trips for children with health conditions from the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster has had to stop operating after several world events made their services inoperable.