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What Does Chernobyl Look Like Now? Inside The Disaster Zone In Northern Ukraine

After the April 1986 nuclear disaster, a 30-kilometer zone around Chernobyl was completely abandoned. This is what it looks like today. The post What Does Chernobyl Look Like Now?...

Ukrainians Thought They Had Reduced Risks At Chernobyl. Then Russia Invaded

Soviet authorities did not immediately reveal the scope of what became known as the world's worst nuclear disaster, which spewed a cloud of radiation over what is now Ukraine and B...

Ukraine marks 40 years since Chernobyl disaster amid war fears

Kyiv says Moscow has repeatedly sent missiles and drones on a flight path near the plant to attack Ukrainian cities, even damaging a critical protective shield in an attack last ye...

40 years after the disaster, Chornobyl remains at risk

It is 40 years ago today since an explosion ripped through Reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, causing the world's worst nuclear disaster. Today, it is Russia's full-sc...

Chernobyl at 40: The past, present and future of a nuclear disaster

Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New Scientist has gained exclusive access to learn how vital wor...

Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster

Forty years ago, the world's worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union's Chornobyl nuclear plant in what is now Ukraine. The ensuing cover-up and clean...

Ukrainians gather to remember Chernobyl disaster despite Russia’s war

People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight commemora...

Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war

In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yetThe dosimeter clipp...

40 Years After the Meltdown, War Layers Another Disaster on Chernobyl

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt.

Chernobyl at 40: My life as a meteorologist under Russian occupation

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Chernobyl lay on the path to the capital Kyiv. When the plant was occupied by Russian troops, meteorologist Lyudmila Dyblenko fearlessly contin...

Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to know

Chernobyl, Ukraine: Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.It comes fo...

Ukraine’s churches remember Chernobyl disaster, 40 years on

RELIGIOUS leaders in Ukraine have marked the 40th anniversary of the Soviet-era Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which cost about 16,000 lives, and £516 billion in global environmental...

My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Chernobyl lay on the path to the capital Kyiv. When the plant was occupied by Russian troops, meteorologist Lyudmila Dyblenko fearlessly contin...

IN BRIEF: What we know about large fire in Chernobyl exclusion zone

The radiation situation in Ukraine, including in the north of the Kiev Region, remains stable, the State Emergency Service said

Chernobyl 2.0: Heres where nuclear disaster could happen next

Psychological prohibitions against endangering civilian reactors and other infrastructure are becoming dangerously thinFour decades after a failed experiment in Soviet Ukraine led...

Ukraine marks 40th anniversary of Chornobyl disaster under cloud of war

Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia’s four-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world’s w...

From the archives: USSR announces Chernobyl power plant explosion in 1986

On April 28, 1986, Swedish scientists detected high levels of radiation, bringing to light the reactor explosion that occurred two days earlier at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant...

Fires break out in exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear plant

Chernobyl survivors have paid the ultimate price in the Russia-Ukraine war

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

Radiation normal after fires near Chornobyl

MOSCOW: Russia ​said ​on Friday that it was carrying out enhanced radiation monitoring after fires in the exclusion zone around the Chornobyl ⁠nuclear power plant in Ukraine ⁠but t...

16 dead in strikes as Chernobyl anniversary highlights nuclear risks of Russia-Ukraine war

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh...

Ukraine marks 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster under cloud of war

Marking the disaster has taken on sharp new meaning during Russia's invasion of its smaller neighbor.

Ukraine: 40 Jahre nach der Katastrophe – Der Krieg bringt Tschernobyl erneut in Gefahr

Die Explosion des Kernreaktors am 26. April 1986 war das größte Unglück in der Geschichte der zivilen Kernkraft. Nun gefährdet Russlands Krieg das Sicherheitskonzept für kom...

40 лет назад произошла авария на Чернобыльской АЭС. Многих ликвидаторов переселили из Припяти в Киев — например, в высот...

40 лет назад — в ночь на 26 апреля 1986 года — на Чернобыльской атомной электростанции рядом с городом Припять взорвался атомный реактор. В результате самого взрыва погибли два чел...