HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was nearly 36 years ago, but it is again in the news after reports surfaced Wednesday morning that Russian forces have cut power to the ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Some ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst ...

The disaster at the Soviet Union-run Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 has left a 1,000-square mile area around the plant uninhabitable.

A nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded in the world's worst atomic accident on April 26, 1986, and sent a radioactive cloud over much of Europe. The plant was closed permanently in 2000.

The 1986 explosion of reactor unit 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant led to the creation of a 4,200-square-kilometer (approx 1,622 square miles) Exclusion Zone.

The strike on the Chernobyl nuclear plant was a 'power play' from Russia, an expert has warned. A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s infamous power plant ...

A Russian drone has struck the vast protective shell covering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine said on Friday.

The miniseries Chernobyl enchanted the world with its bone-chilling depiction of the 1986 nuclear disaster. While most of us were glued to the riveting narrative and historical detail, here are some ...

The shell was built in 2016 over another heavy concrete containment structure, which was placed on the plant's fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster. Both shells seek to prevent radiation leaks.