On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear ...

Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the ...

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

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

The best and most chilling adaptions of the Chernobyl disaster appeared on HBO Max in a five part miniseries simply called ...

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the ...

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

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