In April 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl's nuclear power plant exploded, killing 31 people and affecting about 115,000 people.

Read more: How dangerous is it to visit Chernobyl? We asked a nuclear-waste expert involved in the cleanup. For decades, the tourists who did come to the area were only permitted to observe the ...

The world's tallest peak, Mount Everest in Nepal, is extremely dangerous to climb due to its great altitude and harsh weather ...

Read more: How dangerous is it to visit Chernobyl? We asked a nuclear-waste expert involved in the cleanup. A young civilian recruit reports for duty, where he's given his first assignment ...

Pripyat is a haunting testament to the past, frozen in time since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. This ghost town offers a ...

VLADIMIR Putin is plotting to blitz nuclear power plants in Ukraine and spark a Chernobyl-style disaster, Volodymyr Zelensky has warned. The calculating Russian despot has been using satellites to ...

An area of 4,000 square kilometres around the nuclear power plant was abandoned after the 1986 disaster The first bottles of an "artisanal spirit" made using apples grown near the Chernobyl ...

There is a disturbing trend of people travelling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and ...

The aim of selling Chernobyl artisan vodka and hopefully making ... selling it initially to the increasing number of tourists who now visit the exclusion zone.

On Feb. 24, 2022, the day the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, officers from the Russian National Guard and regular armed forces arrived at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in a column of ...

The next phase of the project has begun to study which parts of the shelter built rapidly around Chernobyl's unit 4 after the 1986 accident need immediate dismantling and which bits need stabilisation ...