Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners ...

Ukraine said firefighters are extinguishing fires in the exclusion area around the Chernobyl plant. Read more at straitstimes ...

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

A viral photograph on Reddit claimed to show one of the first photographs taken at Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The post claimed it was shot 14 ...

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 ...

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...