April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident caused the largest ever release of radioactive material into the ...

The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management has said that sites by two long-abandoned villages have been identified as potential locations for future small modular reactors. An aerial ...

Most stories about Chernobyl circle the same familiar symbols: the Ferris wheel, the empty apartments, the silence hanging over Pripyat. The stronger version of this story lives in real scenes that ...

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 ...

Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on ...

A large forest fire is spreading through the Chernobyl exclusion zone after a drone struck the area yesterday. Though the fire is serious, those on the ground say the risk of radioactive contamination ...

Fieldwork in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, May 2019. Germán Orizaola (Universidad de Oviedo), CC BY April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl ...