In April 1986, Reactor 4 of The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the location of the largest man-made disaster in world history. 28 people died as a direct result of the incident, and countless ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine (Reuters) - For residents of Chernobyl, a three-day evacuation turned into a thirty-year exile. On the morning of April 26, 1986, no one could yet tell that a meltdown in reactor 4 of ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mara D. Bellaby recently visited the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as part of a series of stories commemorating the 20th anniversary of the April 26, 1986, explosion of ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination — much of what's important can be seen only in the mind's eye. From the outside, the ...