Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...

Khaberni - Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, a new study reveals clear evidence of some effects of radiation exposure being passed to the next generation. Research ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...