35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the aftermath of the incident, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was left in near-ruins, the population ...

More than three decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has become an extraordinary experiment in what happens when radiation remains but humans largely disappear. Researchers have ...

From radiation-eating fungi to tanned frogs, scientists are making extraordinary discoveries in the ruins of the 1986 ...

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, ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 17. /TASS/. The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday passed without voting a resolution on the Chernobyl disaster. The resolution entitled Persistent Legacy of the Chernobyl ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...