Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

Inside Chernobyl’s Hostage Crisis When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took control of the abandoned Chernobyl power plant, the site of worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, around 200 workers are being ...

Ukraine’s parliament said in a statement Monday that satellite imagery had revealed at least seven fires in the forested area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. These fires are within 6.2 miles ...

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, ...

TOKYO -- Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale -- the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster -- even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks ...

(NEXSTAR) — Officials in Ukraine say measurements at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have shown increased radiation levels after Russian troops took control of the former nuclear power ...

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims and tourists from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, 26 April 2026. Image ©Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV called for responsible use of atomic energy on Sunday ...

A coordinated campaign of narrative-shaping and disinformation characterized the earliest days of the Covid crisis and the quest to find the virus' origins. Aided by the media, the effort felt eerily ...

Twenty-eight years after its Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind: The possibility that the country’s reactors could become military targets in the ...

Maria Sharapova’s family left Belarus after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which shaped her later charity work. Through her ...

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan put its nuclear calamity on a par with the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, on Tuesday after new data showed that more radiation leaked from its ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...