April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

In 2018, I explored the haunting Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, documenting the abandoned city of Pripyat, the power plant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the sarcophagus that was installed to limit radioactive contamination over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled into the world’s most catastrophic nuclear disaster. Today's epic minute by minute ...

Even nearly 40 years after the 1986 accident, a person can only stand near this object for a few dozen seconds.Deep beneath the basement of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment building ...