On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer, Oleksiy Breus, told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service about his ...

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has been almost completely vacant of humans since 1986, when a reactor exploded at the nuclear ...

You guys loved our article about The Winchester Mystery House offering virtual tours to housebound aficionados of the paranormal during the Coronavirus crisis. We figured we’d share other virtual ...

A ferris wheel at an abandoned amusement park in the ghost town of Pripyat not far from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To the surprise of perhaps no one living in the digital age, the ...

Chernobyl has a flourishing tourism industry. At least 60,000 people visited the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine in 2017, according to official government data. Tourists from around the world ...