Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

"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 ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

We go deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant and the surrounding exclusion zone, recounting the history of the accident on April 26 1986, and speaking with plant workers who were on shift that ...

On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there's a revival around the world, a trend that ...

A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 40 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but Belarus has been affected ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...

Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured ...