"The IAEA team at the Chernobyl site heard an explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl NPP, causing a fire," the IAEA said on ...

Ukraine is building new border defenses with materials brought from outside the exclusion zone. The sarcophagus of reactor 4 ...

Chernobyl is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which began on April 26 1986 with the explosion of the number 4 reactor. The New Safe Confinement around the destroyed reactor was ...

More than a disaster area, much of the 1,000-square-mile Chernobyl exclusion zone, where access is strictly limited, resembles a storybook forest, with snowcapped pine trees and small villages.

Scientists might have been wrong about what caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a new study has claimed.. Rather than being triggered by what is commonly believed to have been a steam explosion ...

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...