Dec 13, 2025 · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed …

On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, a city in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. [1]

1 day ago · UKRAINE – Inside an abandoned control room in Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hard hat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges …

Apr 24, 2018 · Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that was the site of a disastrous nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.

4 days ago · A fresh Russian strike on the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant could cause the collapse of its internal radiation shelter, the site’s director told AFP. Ukraine has repeatedly accused …

Dec 7, 2025 · Emergency workers outside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in February after the confinement structure was punctured by a Russian drone in Pripyat, Ukraine.

On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the …

4 days ago · A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has told AFP.

On April 25 and 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history unfolded in what is now northern Ukraine as a reactor at a nuclear power plant exploded and burned. Shrouded in secrecy, the...

1 day ago · Inside Chernobyl's fragile radiation shield, where the Ukraine-Russia war revives fear of nuclear disaster Another Russian hit — or even a powerful nearby strike — could see the inner ...