Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

It was met with heavy protests from locals while under construction, this was due to the Chernobyl disaster, which killed 31 people. Locals in the area feared that the same outcome could happen ...

The UN's nuclear watchdog (the IAEA) said radiation levels inside and outside Chernobyl were normal and stable - but later the plant's chief engineer, Oleksandr Titarchuk, said the possibility of ...

The 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted AP journalists in Eastern Europe to produce disturbing environmental stories near the site in Ukraine and also from Mayak, the scene of ...