After the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, the Soviet Union launched an enormous emergency response. Thousands of workers, soldiers, and specialists known as “liquidators” were sent to contain the disaster.

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation exposure may have altered animals’ genomes—and even, possibly, sped up evolution.

Significant structural damage was caused to a building at the new central used fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said.

We are going to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. And this time we will do it on electric scooters. We want to show you a completely new method of how to get to Pripyat through the Chernobyl forest with pleasure.

The Duga system, built near the infamous Chernobyl Power Plant, is a towering relic of the Cold War.

An extraordinary journey through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone by electro boat along the Pripyat River, uncovering forgotten locations and a surprising discovery at an abandoned military plant. #Cherno

Some horror stories are fictional. Chernobyl is terrifying because it really happened. HBO’s critically acclaimed miniseries recreates the 1986 nuclear disaster that changed history forever, following the scientists,

Russian soldiers have been injured.