On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, sending a radioactive cloud across Europe and sparking global panic. Around 30 ...

Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.

People streamed in from different parts of the city to place candles on a large radiation hazard symbol as they marked the ...

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

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, still considered the world's worst nuclear accident. In 1986, a safety test at reactor number four in Soviet-controlled Ukraine went ...

Video. Ukrainians in Slavutych on Sunday honoured the men and women whose mission it was to clean up the worst nuclear ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...