The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

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

On February 14, a Russian drone hit the structure, which is called the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, because it is meant to ...

The primal forces that shape our planet, Fire, water, wind, and earth, can also bring chaos, ruin, and sometimes, awe-inspiring spectacles.

Reactor No. 4 at the power plant 110 kilometers (65 miles ... but you can also see the human heroism that corrects it.” The Chernobyl zone saw its tourism increase twofold after the lauded ...

Caused by a failed safety test at Reactor No. 4, the accident led to the immediate ... Regarded as the worst nuclear disaster ever, Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone—spanning approximately 1,000 ...

Nuclear power became a hot topic this week as President Trump floated a plan to make Ukraine’s energy grid great again by bringing in US “electricity and utility expertise” to take over its ...

Caused by a failed safety test at Reactor No. 4, the accident led to the immediate evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from the nearby city of Pripyat and surrounding areas. Regarded as the ...