On this date 35 years ago, the world’s worst nuclear disaster befell Chernobyl and the now-ghost town of Pripyat. Over three decades later, Fox Nation's 'Destination: Chernobyl' revisits the site, ...

As 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, commemorating it as a historical aberration allows Europe to move on without reckoning. Treating it as a warning about the limits of nuclear governance ...

The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 31 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died ...

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentary on nuclear safety published on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, produced in a collaboration between the Project ...

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred after a botched safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in what was then the Soviet Union. The accident caused ...

Thirty three years ago, after an explosion at a nearby power plant, the city of Pripyat in (what is now) Ukraine was evacuated. “Our guides, essentially, were two guys that were teenagers at the time ...

(NEW YORK) — Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and have accused Ukrainian authorities of concealing the scale ...

Historian and Ukrainian Research Institute director Serhii Plokhii studies Eastern Europe’s intellectual, cultural, and international history — particularly the early modern period and current-day ...