In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station was destroyed by an explosion. The resulting environmental disaster has rendered the area surrounding the ...

FILE - A 1986 file photo of an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine showing damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on April 26, 1986 that sent large amounts of ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...

HBO‘s 2019 miniseries Chernobyl told the story of the 1986 nuclear disaster in modern-day Ukraine. It looked in particular at the aftermath of the meltdown and how survivors of the event managed to ...

AP reports -- "The Chernobyl disaster underscored that mankind must be extra careful in using nuclear technologies," Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych said during a ceremony Thursday inaugurating ...

At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - located in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine and considered to have been the pride of the Soviet Union - began what was supposed to be a ...

Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, photographer Maxim Dondyuk began collecting their things.The ...

The five-part historical drama limited series premiered on HBO Max on May 6, 2019. It didn't take long for it to become a ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...