Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

Chernobyl is often described as the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of $180 billion (£133 billion) ...

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

Ukrainians gathered in the city of Slavutych to remember those affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 40 years ago ...

Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

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