It's as devastating as you'd imagine.

The U.S. will give $100 million towards repairs ​of the vast radiation containment ‌dome at the Chornobyl plant in northern ...

At least 15 people have died after a train crashed into the female-only carriage of a commuter train in Bekasi.

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

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the New Safe Confinement structure that was built to shield the damaged Reactor No. 4, ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...