The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster took place in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), CNN is revisiting the tragedy in an ...

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.

The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was undoubtedly the worst nuclear disaster in history. The Chernobyl disaster claimed 30 lives directly and, according to many experts, thousands ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is ...