Russia has been warned that it risks causing a "second Chernobyl" with attacks near Ukraine's energy facilities. Experts in ...

Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with experts cautioning that a critical containment structure is at risk of collapse, ...

KIEV, April 14 (Reuters) - A huge blaze that tore through forests around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, saying hundreds of emergency workers ...

Chernobyl has long been described as a closed chapter, but the site has never stopped being hazardous. The 1986 explosion and fire killed 31 people in the immediate aftermath, and the radioactive ...

According to head of the Atominfo research center Alexander Uvarov, forest fires that periodically occurred in the Ukrainian segment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone may have more significant radiation ...