On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

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

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

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 ...

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

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...

Almost exactly forty years ago, Chernobyl’s number four reactor exploded in what proved to be the single most devastating ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster took place in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), CNN is revisiting the tragedy in an ...

Polish meteorologists have recalled their response to the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown 40 years ago, saying the accident in then-Soviet Ukraine caused a spike in radioactivity over Poland but was ...