Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters were attempting to contain a large fire in the forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday, Ukrainian ...

A large forest fire is spreading through the Chernobyl exclusion zone after a drone struck the area yesterday. Though the fire is serious, those on the ground say the risk of radioactive contamination ...

The site surrounding Chernobyl nuclear plant has been largely deserted since 1986, when the plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown – Copyright Ukrainian Chernobyl ...

The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.

Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine — Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the ...

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Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse ...

Firefighters were attempting to contain a large fire in the forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said. The fire has spread to more than 1,100 hectares, the State ...