Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains one of the most mysterious places on Earth.

Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the core assemblies of the RBMK reactors at the former Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant—the ...

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 ...

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

A Russian drone strike on Chernobyl has hit a building at the central storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the exclusion zone around the decommissioned nuclear power plant, Ukrainian ...

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during ...

As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...