The group visited key locations including the abandoned city of Pripyat, once home to about 50,000 people, and the New Safe Confinement structure covering the damaged fourth reactor. The commemoration ...

Workers who helped clean up contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster hold flowers before placing them on a monument to their fallen comrades near the plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — A group of liquidators, who played a crucial role in the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, returned to the site ahead of the 40th anniversary of the explosion that ...

KIEV, Ukraine — Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, farmers and volunteers tasked with taking part in the Chernobyl cleanup operation after the ...

In the new research, Dillon and team analyzed whole-genome sequence data collected from 106 dogs between 2018 and 2019, including animals from the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and from Chornobyl City ...

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, ...