The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The breach at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history, one that has been covered countless times.

Sampling is taking place across the Zhytomyr region after a research study suggested that thousands of hectares of farmland in the area outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone could safely return to ...