PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.

Today marks 40 years since the worst nuclear accident in history, the explosion at Chernobyl. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was in the USSR, then one country. Now it's in northern Ukraine. The ...

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

A major international study has found that children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster show no additional DNA damage linked to their parents’ radi.

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 ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — 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, ...