Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, hundreds of workers are labouring to construct a vast structure that is to be the first step in removing ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- A quarter-century after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, a week of meetings on the world's worst nuclear accident pressed home the message that the Chernobyl cleanup will ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) - The memory of the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident was honored in Minsk on 26 April. Chernobyl clean-up workers, heads and employees of various ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, local residents were forced to permanently evacuate, leaving behind their homes and, in some cases, their pets. Concerned ...