"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

When reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant exploded, debris emanated radiation at a level of 10,000 roentgens per hour - enough to cause a fatal dose to anyone who stood nearby.

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...

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 ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...