Serhii Plokhy grew up in Ukraine and was there during the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986. He is now a Harvard professor and considered one of the world’s leading ...

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 ...

From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...

(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, ...

As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

Blue dogs have been sighted at Chernobyl. Earlier this month, a few dogs at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine appeared to have bright blue fur, according to an Instagram post from Dogs of ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a profound impact on nuclear safety management.