The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine remains one of the most radioactive areas of the world, following Earth's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A meltdown of a reactor within the Chernobyl nuclear ...

It will be 33 years this week that the former Soviet Union experienced a devastating nuclear disaster in what is now a part of Chernobyl, Ukraine, killing 29 people and causing permanent evacuations ...

This column was written by Andrew Meier. In the spring of 1986 the English language, and nearly every other, acquired a new word for catastrophe: Chernobyl. On April 25, 1986, when Reactor No. 4 at ...

KIEV ― It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning. Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl ...

With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers. By Henry Fountain The long-defunct Chernobyl plant in Ukraine is ...

A remarkably vivid recreation of one of the world’s worst man-made disasters, examining the human cost of a corrupt system’s lies, HBO’s Chernobylwas an incredibly ambitious project, requiring ...