When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the exclusion zone became after April 1986. The story is not just about ruins, ...

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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now ...

The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world's worst ever nuclear power plant incident - Copyright AFP Glody MURHABAZI The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

Preparatory work has begun for installing solar panels which the operators of the Chernobyl plant site say will help meet ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...