Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 28, 1986, Swedish scientists detected high levels of radiation, bringing to light the reactor explosion that occurred two ...

On April 26, 1986, there was a catastrophic accident at the USSR's nuclear power plant near Chernobyl. Despite the deaths caused by the explosion at Chernobyl, other effects of the disaster are ...

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

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

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

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 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and other regions.