Chernobyl

Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has lived in popular culture as a genre all its own, and has often served as a dystopian backdrop…

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Friday after two drones crashed into the area By Andrea Thompson edited by Claire Cameron Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Join Our Community of Science Lovers! A…

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry weather, strong winds and the presence of land mines are complicating efforts to bring the blaze under control...Read More

The huge fire has spread over 1,100 hectares. 08:52, Fri, May 8, 2026 Updated: 09:34, Fri, May 8, 2026 Chernobyl fire (Image: X) A huge forest fire has erupted in Chernobyl as the region is also gripped by fears of a new nuclear accident due to Russian strikes. A large…

Synopsis Forty years ago, a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl. Women from Rivne Nuclear Power Plant were sent to cook for clean-up crews. They faced radiation and health problems. Food meant for workers was often wasted or contaminated. Some food was smuggled out. Decades later, these women fight for promised pensions.…

This week marks four decades since the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in what was then the Soviet Union and is now the Ukraine. The accident happened on April 26, 1986 and became known to the wider world on April 28, when radiation levels spiked at a nuclear power…

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has paid tribute to the “extraordinary courage and resilience” of all those who have endured the legacy of the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion which occurred 40 years ago on Sunday. Martin said that the continuing war in Ukraine reminds us “that the struggle for dignity, safety and…