The latest Russian strike on Ukraine’s power grid has turned one of the world’s most infamous nuclear sites into a fresh ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — Officials in Ukraine have confirmed that radiation rates at Chernobyl have exceeded “control levels” at a large number of observation points. Russian forces captured the power plant ...

Ukrainian authorities have sought to calm fears around a forest fire burning in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station that briefly caused local radiation levels to rise.

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Radiation levels have not ...

Chernobyl was destroyed in 1986 when the plant exploded during a routine safety test at Reactor 4 and sent radiation across ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...

A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a result of a Russian drone strike. Officials from the ...

Update 2/25/22: Ukraine's state nuclear regulator has announced a substantial radiation spike in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Remote analysis shows dangerous emissions have increased about 20-fold, ...

The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau’s radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest in Ukraine, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As he stopped to ...