One night in April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down in Ukraine. Since then, there has been much reporting about the disaster, but no book has so ably ...

The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...

The second anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in April was marked by the publication of several books, each trying to tell the story from a different angle, each attempting to serve a different ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant: a group of ruined and damaged gray, green and white buildings In the early morning ...

PRYPYAT, Ukraine (Reuters) - Any Ukrainian over 35 can tell you where they were when they heard about the accident at the Chernobyl plant. "I remember calling my husband. There had been rumours for ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...