The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern ...

While engineers scramble to patch drone damage at Chernobyl, Ukraine’s president holds ‘substantive’ talks with US envoys.

Coming up on the show, inside the hostage crisis at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. To get a picture of what's been happening inside Chernobyl, our colleagues Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw have ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hard hat gazed at a grey ...

A dog standing in front of a building in the city of Pripyat near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. AFP via Getty Images ...

In October 2021, months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, YouTuber Kyle Hill got a rare glimpse inside the New Safe Confinement (NSC) “sarcophagus” at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s a ...

The wasteland beyond the high fences of an abandoned factory is cloaked in mystery. Off-limits to the public, the only souls who venture in are the foolhardy ‘urban explorers’ who leave themselves at ...

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside the concrete sarcophagus of Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4 in 2018 for a rare and risky glimpse at the stricken power plant's ...

The nuclear ghost town built just two kilometres from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is marking its 50th anniversary. Founded on the 4th of February 1970, Pripyat was entirely evacuated following ...