Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

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 ...

The extreme investigators at How to Survive explore the harrowing ordeal of outlasting a 72-hour nightmare within the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

On April 26, 1986, a series of events led to the world's worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl station, located in Pripyat, about 65 miles north of Kyiv in present-day Ukraine. The ...

Twenty years ago on Dec. 15, 2000 - 14 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster - the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine was permanently shut down. On April 26, 1986, two explosions ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...