Deep beneath Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 lies Room 305/2, an almost inaccessible chamber containing some of the most dangerous ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

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 ...

A traveler entered the abandoned hospital of Pripyat, the city evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster. The hallways were ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Scientists in Europe say the area around the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine has become a ...

Memories of ChernobylApril 26, 1986.A major accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union, in what is now Ukraine.I was six years old at the time.I vaguely remember ...

The five episodes HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl — about the 1986 reactor explosion of the Soviet nuclear power plant, the disastrous fallout, and failed government cover-up — are at once addictive and ...

Even nearly 40 years after the 1986 accident, a person can only stand near this object for a few dozen seconds.Deep beneath the basement of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

Radioactive caesium-137, released into the atmosphere after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, can still be detected in ...

The plant and surrounding area became uninhabitable for humans after a reactor exploded in 1986, releasing over 100 radioactive elements into the atmosphere, according to the International Atomic ...