The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...

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

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a poignant tribute to those who gave their lives and were affected by the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A meltdown of a reactor within the Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 26 ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has approved the release of the first 20 tonnes of carbon steel from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for reuse elsewhere in the country. The commercial operation of the ...

There may be a surprising reason behind the mysterious blue dogs that were recently spotted roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Photos taken earlier this year showed several dogs with bright blue ...