The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

ORBITA, Ukraine -- The apocalyptic photographs of the abandoned town of Pripyat and its rusting amusement park, abandoned schools, and reforested streets have become the icons of the April 1986 ...

March 1970: Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant begins. 1977: The first of four reactors is completed and ready for operation. During the construction of the second reactor, Russian ...

HBO's new five-episode series Chernobyl depicts the circumstances surrounding the worst nuclear catastrophe of the 20th century. When reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station went critical ...

Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) ...

360° Video: Step inside the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster left it uninhabitable. It’s the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, responsible for ...

The April 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains a defining moment in the history of nuclear energy. The lessons of this tragedy are interwoven with a recurrent theme: namely, the ...

Dorina-Maria Buda has received funding from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. Milka Ivanova does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some creative ...