Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Italy's return to nuclear power reflects a broader shift. Here's why countries are reconsidering atomic energy after ...

ROME (AP) — Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation across Europe and turned Italy off nuclear power, ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

Government of the USSR to assess the environmental and health situation in the areas of the Soviet Union contaminated by the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a "laboratory" in which the long-term effects of the massive radiation leak ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Chernobyl exclusion zone, March 16, 2026; Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ...