Business Insider recently visited the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which encompasses the devastated nuclear power station and the highly radioactive ghost town nearby. It was just after ...

In the early hours of Saturday 26th April 1986, an explosion and subsequent fire at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) released large quantities of radioactive material into the ...

the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, after years of heightened fears of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, was the stuff of nightmares. It sent a plume of radioactive ...

But on April 26, 1986, disaster struck at Chernobyl. One of the plant's reactors exploded, sending highly radioactive contamination into the air across the Soviet Union and into Europe.

Since then, about 50 people have died from radiation sickness. That includes 28 workers and firefighters who were killed at the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine.

The delegation, which included members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's nuclear safety department, came a month after Chernobyl unit 4's giant shelter was damaged ... It still ...

We, of course, need to restore the "arch" so that there are no leaks under any circumstances, because ensuring nuclear and radiation safety is the main task." Officials at the plant said the drone ...

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help ...