Shutterstock When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown, it was a terrifying event for people around the world. As ...

Reporting from ILINTSY, UkraineReporting from ILINTSY, Ukraine — Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, The Times is republishing some of our best coverage of the event. This ...

Anatoliy Koliadyn, 66, a former Chernobyl "liquidator," stands next to a monument to the Chernobyl liquidators in his neighborhood in Kiev, Ukraine, April 7, 2016. Liquidators are men and women who ...

(IVANKOV, Ukraine) — In the days before the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster today, workers hurriedly filled in pot holes and painted lines on the decrepit road to the destroyed ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, that saw a nuclear power plant go into meltdown before exploding and sending lethal dust into the air. A staggering 56,700 square miles ...

Chernobyl is located north of Kiev, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. The nuclear plant was close to the newly built city of Pripyat, the small town of Chornobyl and was surrounded primarily by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Haunting scenes of the death, destruction and sickness that followed the Chernobyl meltdown 36 ...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Management of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, said Sunday that 50 staff members who had been on the job since the plant was ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American CHERNOBYL, Ukraine—The face mask and three ...