The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yet The dosimeter clipped to your chest ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. A Ukrainian soldier taking ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's 4-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst ...

Today, Russia's war on Ukraine has increased the risk of another nuclear disaster. On March 4, 2022, Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in southeastern Ukraine, the largest ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

Ukraine said early Sunday that Russia struck areas near the Chernobyl nuclear facility, hitting a building that holds spent ...

In 1961, K-19, the Soviet Union’s first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, suffered a catastrophic reactor cooling failure during its first patrol in the North Atlantic. With no backup system, no ...