A nuclear engineer takes a closer look at what remains of Chernobyl’s infamous Elephant’s Foot and what has changed since it was first discovered. #Chernobyl #ElephantsFoot #NuclearEnergy #NuclearEngi ...

FILE - The highly contaminated control room for Reactor No. 4 is seen inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nov. 10, 2000. Engineers threw a switch at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. A combination of poor planning and ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill led the service near a monument to firefighters and clean up workers who died soon after the accident from acute radiation poisoning. "The world had not known a ...