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

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

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

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...

The 'extremely vile Russian strike' has sparked fears of a new nuclear disaster.

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

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 ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

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 ...

Reason magazine’s Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is inherently dangerous, but that totalitarian governments can't safely manage ...