Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown ...

Diana Brooks, from Brenchley village in Kent, was one of four volunteers who ran the Trust for Chernobyl Children, which ...

Slavutych was built as a Soviet paradise for refugees from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster but now it is being born again as a ...

For the past 40 years, the wastes of the Chernobyl site have stood as a monument to human arrogance, the danger of secrets, ...

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 ...

In May 2025, President Donald Trump issued four executive orders aimed at expanding the nuclear power industry. Trump called ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. He remembers the ...

Four decades ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen. Today, ...

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four ...

When Klavdia Omelchenko left her home in Pripyat, she thought it would be for a few days. But the 19-year-old had no idea ...