Discover what it takes to survive 72 hours in Chernobyl. Design approved for US Mint's 24k gold Trump coin, despite objections Watch: CENTCOM releases before-and-after photos of Iranian missile ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Volodymyr Vechirko, 62, one of the workers who helped decontaminate the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the 1986 accident, rides in a bus with fellow workers f ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze Chernobyl hazards, radiation exposure, and what it takes to survive 72 hours safely. Petrol, diesel fresh prices announced: Check rates in your city ...