April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

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

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

Memories of ChernobylApril 26, 1986.A major accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union, in what is now Ukraine.I was six years old at the time.I vaguely remember ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - A view shows the destroyed Reactor Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the catastrophic explosion. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the sarcophagus that was installed to limit radioactive contamination over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following ...

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment building ...

The five episodes HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl — about the 1986 reactor explosion of the Soviet nuclear power plant, the disastrous fallout, and failed government cover-up — are at once addictive and ...