The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

Chernobyl’s landscape recovered in unexpected ways, but uneven radiation, hidden harm, and human absence reveal a far more complex reality.

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...

The power loss comes after the UN’s nuclear watchdog previously warned the protective shield at the Chernobyl power plant can no longer contain radioactive material due to damage caused by a drone ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...