Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the ...

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...