Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Now 87, the Ukrainian military pilot returned to Chernobyl last month for the first time since the 1986 accident and recalled how he had made three separate flights over the reactor to measure the ...

Lyudmila Ignatenko was pregnant in 1986 when her firefighter husband was among the first-responders to the infamous ... Ignatenko said that with Chernobyl, which aired in the U.S. back in May ...

And when looking at the direct impact on the countries surrounding Chernobyl, it said ... with potential casualties among first responders. Over time, increased cancer risks, especially ...