Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) ...

In the Ukrainian capital, the 'Chernobyl House' shelters survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, now confronted with Russian ...

April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's ...

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the ...

Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...