IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl ...

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

Ukrainians mark 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, still considered the world's worst nuclear accident. In 1986, a safety test at reactor number four in Soviet-controlled Ukraine went ...

Chernobyl exploded in 1986, John Wilkes Booth met his end in a burning barn in 1865, and Lucille Ball died in 1989. April 26 ...

My inkling is that men and women alike both massively overestimate the risks from a nuclear accident – men just have a lower threshold for seeing nuclear as safe I was reminded of the Darwin Awards ...

“Oil is literally falling from the sky. We can’t breathe. The entire city reeks of fuel oil, dripping onto cars,” Elmira ...

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Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...