From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — There's a silence in Pripyat that's unsettling but also hauntingly peaceful. There's no traffic or commotion in the streets or on the sidewalks. In fact, there are no cars or people ...

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, ...

Timothy Mousseau, a USC professor with a PhD in biology, and his colleagues have begun conducting the only on-site research ...

The April 1986 explosion at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, killed dozens of people quickly, many more slowly, forced 68,000 people to evacuate, and became the most expensive ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

(CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, ...

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 ...