At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then exploded again just seconds later. In this video, we break down the RBMK reactor ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

In November 2016, a massive metal dome was erected over the remains of the reactor paid for with almost 2.5 billion dollars ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life. Ever since the Unit Four reactor at ...

Officials at the site of the world's worst nuclear accident announced plans recently to sell scrap and other equipment from ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images The steel structure sealing off the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr ...

Foreign ministers from the G7 are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...

Hard-to-kill mould could be used to protect people living on the Moon and Mars from deadly cosmic rays ...