The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

The protective shield that covers the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has "lost safety function" following a drone strike in February, the UN nuclear watchdog has said. The shield, which was ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to ...

Damage inflicted by a drone strike on the protective structure surrounding a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant has left it unable to perform its core safety role, Reuters reported, ...

(CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, ...

According to head of the Atominfo research center Alexander Uvarov, forest fires that periodically occurred in the Ukrainian segment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone may have more significant radiation ...