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HBO Show Success Drives Chernobyl Tourism Boom

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine—The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ...

June 19, 2019BY Reuters

Haunting Photo Taken From the Bowels of Chernobyl Shows Horrifying Radioactive Lava Heap

In the wee hours of April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the VI Lenin Nuclear Plant ...

June 17, 2019BY Michael Wing

Meet the Only Child Born and Raised in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

The only baby who was born inside of Chernobyl's exclusion zone following the nuclear disaster is now nearly ...

June 10, 2019BY Jack Phillips

Chernobyl and Fukushima: Measuring Radioactivity, Harm to Wildlife

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that Chernobyl released 400 times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the ...

April 26, 2016BY Timothy A. Mousseau

Chernobyl: New Tomb Will Make Site Safe for 100 Years

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, there's still a significant threat of radiation from the crumbling remains ...

April 26, 2016BY Claire Corkhill

Photos: 30th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

The worst nuclear catastrophe the world has ever seen marks its 30th anniversary this year. On April 26, 1986, ...

April 26, 2016BY Giuliana Manca

Watch: Drone Explores Ghost Town Near Chernobyl Power Plant

After the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, Soviet authorities established an "exclusion zone" within ...

February 2, 2016BY Jonathan Zhou

Pripyat (near Chernobyl) Ukraine—Real-Life Ghost Town

Pripyat is an extraordinary experience—something you most probably have never seen and will never see.

September 23, 2014BY Tomasz Lisowski