There’s plainly something seductive about depicting the end of the world — especially if it comes from beyond human hands. The people living through “The Last of Us” are, in a sense, blameless: ...

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

It has been two years since a giant steel shelter was slid into position over Chernobyl's crumbling radioactive ruins. The New Safe Confinement (NSC) was deployed in November 2016 to contain radiation ...

HBO's new five-episode series Chernobyl depicts the circumstances surrounding the worst nuclear catastrophe of the 20th century. When reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station went critical ...

Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from “acute radiation sickness” and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports ...