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

Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl is still frozen in time—but not in the way you’d expect. In this video, we explore the abandoned buildings, eerie silence, and ...

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and EVGENIY MALOLETKA CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure ...

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) - Victims of the Chernobyl disaster were commemorated in Minsk on 26 April. The leaders and employees of various ministries and departments laid flowers at the Chernobyl ...