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 ...
Think of Chernobyl and you think of the city of Pripyat, but what happened to the other towns and villages in the exclusion ...
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...
Kyiv is calling for an international investigation after a drone allegedly struck a spent nuclear fuel facility.
PRIPYAT, Ukraine — The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that ...
On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...
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 ...
A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...