April 26, 1986. At 1:28 a.m., a call sends firefighters to Chernobyl's Unit Four. One man pulls on his uniform in the dark, tells his wife, “Be back soon,” and heads for the plant. Black graphite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - Group of tourists stand at the memorial in front of unit four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which ...

Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine’s Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters were attempting to contain a large fire in the forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday, Ukrainian ...

When the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986—precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history—it resulted almost entirely from human factors. As the real ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

The site surrounding Chernobyl nuclear plant has been largely deserted since 1986, when the plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown – Copyright Ukrainian Chernobyl ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian fire fighters have contained a large forest fire that threatened to spread toward the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant and radiation levels in the area are normal, ...

In the early hours of April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear catastrophe in history. A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine exploded, spreading radioactive clouds ...

Firefighters were attempting to contain a large fire in the forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said. The fire has spread to more than 1,100 hectares, the State ...