Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains one of the most mysterious places on Earth.

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...

A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...

The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more ...

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive ...

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