AP Was There: Early Chernobyl victims buried in Moscow cemetery

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any ...

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in ...

Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

Ukraine marks 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster under cloud of war

Kyiv says Moscow has repeatedly sent missiles and drones on a flight path near the plant. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

From radiation to invasion: a Chernobyl worker's two wars

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded."When people here ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity—but it faces new threats from Russia's invasion

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

Inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone - 40 years on

New Scientist journalist Matthew Sparkes recently chucked out his boots after travelling deep into Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Forty years on from the world's worst nuclear disaster, the site has ...

‘I miss our land. Chernobyl broke us’: The families who lost their homes after world’s worst nuclear accident

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...
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Chernobyl drone strike halts dismantling work for a decade

A Russian drone strike in February 2025 damaged Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement, halting dismantling of the reactor’s sarcophagus for at least a decade. While radiation levels remain stable, the ...