As Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, its president Volodmyr Zelenskyy has accused ...

For decades, researchers, political leaders and advocacy groups have worked to uncover the story of the explosion ...

On 26 April, 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ...

Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian ...

Ukrainians gathered to honour those who died from the accident, as well as the hundreds of thousands who cleaned up after the ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of “nuclear terrorism” as he marked the 40th anniversary of the ...

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

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the ...

Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, Valerii, the first worker to die in the nuclear meltdown at ...

Danny Grossman, once a U.S. diplomat in the USSR, remembers Chernobyl — and an awkward dinner with a refusenik family.

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