Concerns about hidden firefighting costs and haunting Chernobyl memories cast fresh doubts over nuclear plans.

One of the turning points in history took place on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

A major fire broke out in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl on June 29 when dry grass caught fire, it spread to the area of some 130 hectares KIEV, August 11. /TASS/. Rescuers have been unable ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar ... which triggered an explosion and fire that spewed large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere across Ukraine and much of the European continent.

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...