Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast. Scientists are ...

Join Vyacheslav (VIA) as he braves the radioactive mysteries of Chernobyl, magnet fishing for wild relics, uncovering Soviet secrets, and maybe even stumbling on fuel for a flying van. #Chernobyl #Adv ...

The Soviet Union built secret military installations across Eastern Europe, but few are as eerie as the spy base left behind in Chernobyl after the disaster. Abandoned in haste, its walls still echo ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) is primarily famous for the now-destroyed reactor that held the world on ...

IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 – ...

In April 1986, the cause of a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is mysteriously shrouded in a veil of secrecy; now, experts examine declassified documents to uncover the true ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...

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 ...