Thirty-three years after reactor No. 4 melted down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine — permanently evacuating entire towns, killing thousands and creating a massive Exclusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bypass channel for cooling at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. (Photo: Vitaliy Holovin/Corbis via ...

Dappled light falls across the lobby of Pripyat’s abandoned Hospital No. 126, now so smothered by vegetation that it ...

The abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine has become immortalized in video games, horror movies, and documentaries, after the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant made it a ...

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer, Oleksiy Breus, told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service about his ...

On the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, The Athletic’s Richard Sutcliffe recalls a visit to the nearby town of Pripyat, once home to a proud and ambitious football club, ...

On April 26, 1986, a failure during a test in the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused an explosion. According to the World Nuclear Association, two people died ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, families in Pripyat were told to evacuate for only three days and leave their pets ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster from the air, now may be your chance. To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the catastrophe this month, an aerial tour ...

A ferris wheel at an abandoned amusement park in the ghost town of Pripyat not far from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To the surprise of perhaps no one living in the digital age, the ...

“It is for your protection from I don’t know what” our guide says, handing out white hooded jumpsuits. We all scramble round the back of the bus, trying to pull our protective clothing on. On every ...