Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive plume across Europe. The effects were devastating and ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East.

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only exists in a single place on Earth.

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary. The accident known as the world's worst nuclear ...

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive contamination

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine left people wondering if radiation or ...

Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, thousands of dogs still roam the exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned reactor site. Their survival in one of the world's most infamous radioactive environments has sparked growing scientific interest,