Nuclear Sciences and Applications Safeguards & Additional Protocols International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Power Reactor Information System It was in the early Saturday morning hours on April 26, 1986 when a Soviet-built nuclear reactor suffered a cataclysmic system failure, resulting in an explosion that blew off the reactor's roof. The explosion led to the contamination of large territories in present-day Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Roughly fifty people, most ...

Ukraine marks the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident - at Chernobyl - amid renewed global nuclear concern.

TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.

Diana Markosian wanted to understand what kept the few who stayed behind in the Ukrainian village of Redkovka, not far from the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

You are here: Home / Top Story / Chernobyl fallout still felt in Norway Fallout from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant continues to affect Norwegian farmers 25 years later, as environmental organizations demanded that the government do more to help efforts to secure remaining vulnerable reactors in both Chernobyl and northern Russia. Norwegian sheep, and their owners, are still affected by the events at Chernobyl 25 years ago. PHOTO: Views and News Emissions of radioactive ma...

As Fukushima stokes popular fears about nuclear energy, can Ukraine turn its most infamous disaster into a Disney World of Soviet-era devastation?

Nearly twenty-five years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, it has emerged that only half the money needed to safely secure the wreckage of the Chernobyl power plant has been raised. The BBC's One Planet team visited Chernobyl and the nearby town of Pripyat.

In March 2009, I spent two days in the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. When I put my pictures online, I don’t add a lot of text and history to it. In the case of Chernobyl however, having the pictures speak for themselves wouldn’t do the trip nor the location justice – there is too much to tell about the history and ambiance; for this reason, I have made the travel stories part of the publishing process. This page collects the complete Chernobyl Journal, which was published as part of the blog ...

This April, Marblehead-based photographer Peter Morris traveled to Ukraine to visit Chernobyl and document what he found there 25 years after what is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

“In matters nuclear one thing is certain: there is no protection in an iron curtain.” A letter in The Times May 3rd, 1986. On the 26th of April 1986 shortly after midnight, to be precise, at 1:23 GMT, there occurred near the Ukrainian town of Chornobyl a tremendous explosion at a huge nuclear power plant, followed by a gradual meltdown of the reactor No. 4. Chornobyl is situated 80 miles north-west of Kiev, the ancient capital of Ukraine and the Soviet Union’s third largest city. It was by f...

Vladimir Simicek / Isifa via Getty ImagesA ferris wheel remains abandoned in the empty town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Friday, March 25, 2011, in Pripyat, Ukraine. The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is next month. On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 station causing a nuclear meltdown as firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world in the worst-ever ci...

The April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant created ghost towns across Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from surrounding areas.

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