On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Haunting drone footage shows what the Chernobyl nuclear power plant looks like almost three decades after it was left devastated by an historic toxic explosion. The eerie bird’s eye view shows how the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PRIPYAT, Ukraine — It’s an eerily empty city ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, that saw a nuclear power plant go into meltdown before exploding and sending lethal dust into the air. A staggering 56,700 square miles ...

Sometimes interest in tourism is sparked not by where you can go but where you can't. Such seems to be the case with Pripyat, Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, a ghost town of a city that is at the center of ...

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 ...

He works in mysterious ways.