IN THE SMALL hours of February 24th 2022, Valentyn Heiko received a phone call at work. Gunfire could be heard at Vilcha, less than 50km away: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was under way. “We’re ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began on April 26, 1986. But its aftermath escalated the catastrophe to unheard of levels. The disaster began ...

The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...