A Russian drone has struck the vast protective shell covering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine said on Friday. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine remains one of the most radioactive areas of the world, following Earth's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A meltdown of a reactor within the Chernobyl nuclear ...

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday warned Russia was using nuclear power plants to "blackmail" the world, speaking on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. "Thirty-seven years ...

Greenpeace is investigating the radiation levels at Chernobyl following the Russian occupation of the area. Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—the site of one of the worst nuclear ...

Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from “acute radiation sickness” and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports ...

The site of Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant -- partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown -- lost power on Wednesday after Russia shelled a nearby substation, Kyiv said. The UN's atomic energy ...