A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.

After the catastrophic Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countless pieces of equipment and machinery were used in the cleanup and containment efforts. But what exactly happened to all that equipment ...

But his reassurances fell flat with some Chernobyl cleanup workers and victims. About 2,000 protesters staged an angry rally Thursday outside parliament in Kiev, demanding an increase in ...

Americans tend to think first of Fukushima and Three Mile Island — the one closer in time, the other nearer in space — but it is Chernobyl’s horrors that top the short list (so far) of big ...

About 2,000 veterans of the Chernobyl clean up rallied in Kiev earlier this month to protest cuts in their benefits and pensions after Ukraine's Yanukovich said fulfilling the past promises to ...

On the 35th anniversary of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, new research has been published that could help to contain and clean up the most dangerous radioactive materials that still ...

Containment efforts and monitoring continue and cleanup is expected to last until at least 2065. The city of Pripyat was built to house workers of the nuclear power plant in the 1970s.

On April 26, 1986, two powerful explosions tore through Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, flipping the reactor's giant 2,000-ton concrete lid into the air like a coin. White-hot chunks ...

Fallout from Chernobyl haunts Europe: ... Some 600,000 troops and volunteers were sent in to fight the fire and clean up contamination, ... In the case of Chernobyl, there was no containment ...

This photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2016 shows the old sarcophagus, right, over the reactor building damaged by explosion and a new confinement, left, under construction at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

On April 26, 1986 a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl plant caught fire and exploded, sending radioactive debris high into the sky. Aleksey Breus was an engineer at Chernobyl at the time of the ...