Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the ...
IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...
FEARS are mounting that an inferno raging in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone could soon reach the vicinity of the nuclear ...
Ukraine says a Russian drone attack in February 2025 damaged Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement, the massive structure built to contain radiation from the 1986 disaster. The strike burned key sealing ...
The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night.The first, at 1:23 a.m. April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that raised fears across ...
April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.