In the aftermath, Pripyat was evacuated just a day after the explosion, turning it into a ghost town almost instantly. This tragic history remains palpable in the stillness of the streets, where ...

Read more: How dangerous is it to visit Chernobyl? We asked a nuclear-waste expert involved in the cleanup. For decades, the tourists who did come to the area were only permitted to observe the ...

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

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

Of all the places destroyed by nuclear disasters, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion is one of the worst. Today, Chernobyl and the exclusion zone are considered one of the most ...

The charity - Chernobyl Children's Lifeline - previously ... meaning that the charity was unable to visit the area surrounding the Chornobyl disaster. Due to their dire financial situations ...

A charity providing respite trips for children with health conditions from the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster has had to stop operating after several world events made their services inoperable.

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...