35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown — the world's worst nuclear accident — authorities cordoned off the most contaminated areas around the Ukrainian power plant. That restricted land, known as the ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HBO has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming five-part miniseries about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Jared ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

A study of six Chernobyl particles found their nuclear fuel structures largely intact after 40 years, shedding light on ...

Unlike the recent HBO series, the Russian-language feature film “Chernobyl 1986” explores the human toll of the power plant explosion. By Valerie Hopkins CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — In April 1986, Alexander ...