The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

Repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has raised the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

In 1986, a nuclear calamity that helped bring down the Soviet empire began in Ukraine. Could it happen again?

Scientists believe that by turning their skin black, the mutated frogs may have helped themselves to survive in the radiation-soaked Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant - which suffered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters in April 1986

The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure to high doses of radiation was severe for the environment and the human population. But more than three…

Her visions are said to be 85% correct and include the Chernobyl tragedy, the death of Princess Diana, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Yuri bear project started as a need to do something – anything — to help. What began as a small gesture has grown, with knitters across the country now making the toys.

Zelensky said in a video address overnight that Russia is ‘leaving death behind it everywhere’

Fighting near the plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has fuelled fears of a nuclear disaster like the one that took place at Chernobyl in 1986.

The Russian defence minister warned that Ukraine risked a Chernobyl-style catastrophe after accusing it of using Western-supplied weapons to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine six months ago, they gained control of the nuclear facility early in the fighting. They based soldiers and heavy equipment there and have been using the plant as a…