The fires have come within a mile of the former nuclear power station. Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl KIEV (Reuters) - Fires around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant and ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly ...

Forest fires that raged near the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine have been put out, emergency officials said Tuesday, though they acknowledged that grassy areas were still ...

(Reuters) -Russian air strikes have cut power to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, including a new containment unit erected to minimise ...