The ruined Chernobyl nuclear facility still contains some 200 tons of radioactive fuel. A "sarcophagus" -- a steel and concrete shell built soon after the disaster to contain the radiation is ...

It’s a blast from the past. Eerie photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned Ukrainian power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit up ahead of the 40th ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners ...

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

Project Impossible looks at the great movable arch used to contain Chernobyl This week Project Impossible looks at some of the trickiest building projects including the largest movable building in the ...

Wojciech Pazdur, creative director at Polish developer The Farm 51, can't wait to talk about their Chernobyl VR Project. His face exudes determination and drive and little else. As we scramble around ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the ...