Pripyat, Ukraine, has been a ghost town for the last 25 years. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's No. 4 reactor experienced a sudden power surge resulting in several explosions and ...

(Reuters) -Russian air strikes have cut power to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, including a new containment unit erected to minimise ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that multiple explosions were heard on Thursday morning at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, and that several drones were detected in ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

The worst nuclear disaster in history was handled poorly, Donvan says. March 17, 2011— -- Though there are complaints that too little information is getting out about Japan's nuclear power plant, ...

It began as a gray and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning. Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl 25 years ...

Ukraine said the confinement structure housing a damaged reactor lost power in the incident, and that specialists were currently working to restore electricity. Russian shelling has cut power to the ...

The head of the Atominfo analytical center Alexander Uvarov stressed that there is no threat of a nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl NPP, and the Ukrainian ministry’s statement is an attempt to divert ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...

Emerging from the unyielding cold of the Arctic, Russia has successfully tested its most audacious weapon yet: the ...