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

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

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 ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety ...

On April 26, 1986, a series of events led to the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl station, located ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...