The first time—just moments before—was after his SR-71 Blackbird, flying at more than ... 124 to New York to pick up aid for children of Chernobyl,” Poddoubnyi recalls.

Chernobyl, Ukraine - Power line failures forced the shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Monday, raising doubts over whether engineers would restart it less than three weeks before its ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can safely return to production, according to new research. The study ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone of 4,200sqkm around the nuclear plant remains uninhabited to this day and is now one of Europe’s largest nature reserves. But the 2,000sqkm Zone of Obligatory ...

Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl is still frozen in time—but not in the way you’d expect. In this video, we explore the abandoned buildings ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to the giant shelter built over the ruins of Chernobyl's unit 4. Hundreds of ...

Based on heart-wrenching real-life occurrences of the Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl 1986, also called Chernobyl: Abyss, hasn't quite hit the mark with audiences according to director Danila Kozlovsky.

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Australia’s largest venture capital firm Blackbird has taken the unusual step of agreeing to tip millions into payments ...

The Chernobyl disaster, which took place on April 26, 1986, was a nuclear accident in Ukraine that occurred as a result of a reactor explosion and led to vast amounts of radioactive material being ...

Pictures have shown workers finally demolishing an abandoned housing estate dubbed 'Scotland's Chernobyl'. Wrecking machines have started knocking down the Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow after ...

An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.