Russian soldiers allegedly stole highly radioactive “souvenirs” from labs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a Ukrainian agency has said. The invading troops were accused by the State Agency of ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

Russian forces have withdrawn from Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine’s nuclear power plants said on Thursday.

During the Russian occupation, most research in Chernobyl ground to a halt. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was created shortly after the nuclear disaster and now covers 2,8000 square kilometers in ...

Radiation levels are elevated in some parts of the soil near the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, but do not pose a significant threat to workers or the environment, the head ...

When Aleksandr Barsukov and his colleagues returned to work at the Chernobyl nuclear plant after the retreat of Moscow’s forces, they found in every office what they described as a parting gift ...

The region’s landscape is “a patchwork of different radioactivity levels,” says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who’s been studying Chernobyl’s wildlife ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident ...

Chernobyl’s No. 4 nuclear reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation clouds across Europe. The plant, located in northern Ukraine some 12 miles from the country’s border with ...

Corium is so hot, it eats everything in its way. It can dissolve steel, sand and concrete, and it transforms water into radioactive steam almost instantly. At Chernobyl, it was estimated 1,500 ...