Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

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Marking the anniversary, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns that Russia is using "nuclear terrorism" as a weapon of war.

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.

FEARS are mounting that an inferno raging in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone could soon reach the vicinity of the nuclear ...

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the ...

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.