Most stories about Chernobyl circle the same familiar symbols: the Ferris wheel, the empty apartments, the silence hanging over Pripyat. The stronger version of this story lives in real scenes that ...

The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a Ukrainian soldier walks in. This is where Russian soldiers were living at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and radiation levels ...

The sudden ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room as a Ukrainian soldier walks in. This is where Russian soldiers were living at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and radiation levels ...

A forest fire that had raged for three days in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, was put out Thursday and no increase in radiation in the air ...

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Japan declared a radioactive water leak at the crippled Fukushima plant a level-three "serious incident" Wednesday, its highest warning in two years, as operators scrambled to seal a tank that has ...

With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers. By Henry Fountain The long-defunct Chernobyl plant in Ukraine is ...

The area around Chernobyl, namely the Red Forest, is still the most nuclear contaminated area on the planet, with most of the radioactive particles present on the soil. Ukrainian officials have ...

It's an example of what Ukrainian officials say was the lax and careless behavior of Russian soldiers while they were in control of the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The area around Chernobyl, ...