Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Experts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Norway have confirmed that the arch at Chernobyl, ...

A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

The roof of the power plant, they argue, has become "the most dangerous place on earth ... Read more: Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear-power-plant accident. Here's how it compares ...

KIEV, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that an explosion sounded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) site overnight. "The IAEA team at the Chernobyl ...

particularly in a country where many vividly remember living through the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

This was significant because the Soviets were denying that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl had taken place. Satellite imagery, it was now clear, could show events and places in countries where ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident (you can read more about it in the ... IAEA teams are also in place at Ukraine's three operating nuclear power plants ...