"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Damage was seen inside the power station's exclusion zone.

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...