Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Soviet Ukraine suffered a critical failure on April 26, 1986. On the night of the incident, at 1.23am local time, Reactor Four of the Soviet power plant ...

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 saw a nuclear reactor explode in the Ukraine-based Soviet Chernobyl plant. The violent chain reaction spewed nuclear radiation over Europe, as radioisotopes tore into ...

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl ...

It’s been more than 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The incident was catastrophic, leaving a swath of Ukraine a radioactive no-go zone. On ...

Few things haunt our modern nightmares as terrifyingly as nuclear disasters – and though it began a full 37 years ago today, the Chernobyl catastrophe still casts a long shadow over the debate about ...

For nearly four decades the area surrounding the ruined Soviet reactor has remained largely empty of people, yet full of wildlife adapting to an unusual landscape. After the April 1986 explosion at ...

Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland told to ‘emphasise that the food chain was safeguarded in 1986’ ...

Chernobyl survivors have described the grim health issues and continued impact of radiation on their lives that they still suffer from 37 years later. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko was 34 and working as the ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

Survivors of the world's worst nuclear disaster have said they fear history may repeat itself at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko, a native of the Chernobyl region, ...