The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to the giant shelter built over the ruins of Chernobyl's unit 4. Hundreds of ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone of 4,200sqkm around the nuclear plant remains uninhabited to this day and is now one of Europe’s largest nature reserves. But the 2,000sqkm Zone of Obligatory ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic ...

Every year on April 26, the world pauses to commemorate International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, honouring the victims of one of the gravest nuclear catastrophes in human history.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Ukraine is seeking solutions to repair the damage caused by a Russian drone attack to the confinement vessel at the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a government ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

At the time, local news articles referred to it as “Fairmont’s Chernobyl.” The EPA established and (when checked recently) still maintains a website at “Site Profile-Fairmont Brine Site ...

Flames visible from kilometers away. This is the image Ukrainian technicians encountered when they managed to access the Chernobyl site, hours after the Russian attack hit the 'New Safe ...

A huge radioactive site which is planted on almost 600 acres of desert land has been compared to an "underground Chernobyl" with warnings that it is a disaster waiting to happen. Now, the site has ...

Now it is days away from being demolished having been abandoned. It has been nicknamed ‘Scotland’s Chernobyl’ with the once well-looked after homes now covered in weeds, having fallen into ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield ...