For the past 40 years, the wastes of the Chernobyl site have stood as a monument to human arrogance, the danger of secrets, the plodding ineptitude of repressive regimes, and the catastrophes that ...

Chernobyl Explosion: 40 years later, disaster still shapes nuclear safety The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...

Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of the photographs that Brook Ward, president of UPMC Washington and Greene ...

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

It was 1.23am when disaster struck. A routine safety test led to a catastrophic explosion. Poor design and inadequate safety procedures saw radioactive material scattered around the globe. In just 48 ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the warning came too little, too late. Macabre as it may sound, some catastrophes ...