Years after the accident, more than 200,000 additional people were resettled into less-contaminated areas in nearby regions.

The United States will contribute $100 million toward repairs to the protective structure over the damaged reactor at the ...

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear ...

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

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.

Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that ...

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves have flourished in the exclusion zone, with populations now seven times higher than before the accident. Their presence is subtly reshaping predator ...

Ukrainians gathered in the city of Slavutych to remember those affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 40 years ago.

Russia’s invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, “We ...