In the Ukrainian capital, the 'Chernobyl House' shelters survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, now confronted with Russian ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...

Today marks 40 years since the worst nuclear accident in history, the explosion at Chernobyl. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was in the USSR, then one country. Now it's in northern Ukraine. The ...

There aren't many single words that conjure up as much horror and emotion as 'Chernobyl'. The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

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. Today marks 40 years since the ...