The first sound At 5 a.m. on May 24, employees at Kyiv’s Chernobyl Museum heard the thud of what was almost certainly an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and ...

On April 26, 1986, a series of events led to the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl station, located in Pripyat, about 65 miles north of Kyiv in present-day Ukraine. The ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions in ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Twenty years ago on Dec. 15, 2000 - 14 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster - the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine was permanently shut down. On April 26, 1986, two explosions ...

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident in north Ukraine that killed dozens and left many injured and diseased. Ukraine is now asking the United Nations to protect the site as a UNESCO World ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...