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 ...

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was nearly 36 years ago, but it is again in the news after reports surfaced Wednesday morning that Russian forces have cut power to the facility ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

As the world remembers the largest nuclear disaster, he wrote on X: “Forty years ago, the world faced one of the largest nuclear disasters – the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took control of the abandoned Chernobyl power plant, the site of worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, around 200 workers are being held hostage at the site by ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...