Russian forces have vacated the area surrounding Chernobyl, but Ukrainian officials are now sounding the alarm that troops were likely exposed to high amounts of radiation after they intentionally ...

These photographs are real. However, the large structures in the background are part of an old steel mill, not a nuclear power plant. In February 2022, as the Winter Olympic Games kicked off in ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was still powered by backup generators Saturday, three days after external power was cut. Ukrainian workers at the site have been held captive around the ...

Russian soldiers who captured the Chernobyl nuclear site in the early stages of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February may have taken home radioactive “souvenirs.” Ukraine’s state nuclear ...

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred after a botched safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in what was then the Soviet Union. The accident caused ...

• Early in the invasion, Russian forces took control of Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in Ukraine where a reactor exploded in 1986 in the worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, they have seized ...