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All the latest updates on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat in Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, the plant's No. 4 reactor exploded in a devastating accident. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties.

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Nuclear expert issues Chernobyl update after it emerges fires are still burning

Channel: World World February 17, 2025 By Luke Alsford

Map reveals the 13 most radioactive places on Earth - including Chernobyl

Channel: World World February 24, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi
Play Video Damage to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor roof after drone attack in Ukraine.

Radioactive leak 'possible' at Chernobyl nuclear plant after drone attack

Channel: World World February 15, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
A view over the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

6 of the world's most dangerous tourist attractions, from acid lakes to nuclear waste

Channel: Travel Travel January 28, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings
CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE- APRIL 29: View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine. (Photo by SHONE/GAMMA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

How fungus in the Chernobyl exclusion zone can absorb deadly radiation

Channel: Tech Tech December 30, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
A dog on a concrete ground in Chernobyl

Have Chernobyl dogs evolved superpowers after world's worst nuclear disaster?

Channel: World World December 10, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
Chernobyl. New & Exclusive. Valery Legasov draws up a plan, but it comes with great human risks. Lyudmilla ignores warnings about her firefighter husband's contamination. (S1, ep 3 )

Viewers complain no one is talking about ‘best TV series of all time’

Channel: TV TV November 14, 2024 By Ruth Lawes
Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl artwork

Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl hands-on preview and interview - ‘our team is 99% Ukrainian’

Channel: Gaming Gaming October 16, 2024 By Steve Boxer

13 of the most radioactive places on Earth – including in the UK and US

Channel: World World February 14, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi
A Chernobyl guard captured in Russia

The photos that expose the true horror of Putin's torture

Channel: World World June 6, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
CHERNOBYL - JANUARY 25: The remnants of beds are seen in an abandoned in a pre school in the deserted town of Pripyat on January 25, 2006 in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Prypyat and the surrounding area will not be safe for human habitation for several centuries. Scientists estimate that the most dangerous radioactive elements will take up to 900 years to decay sufficiently to render the area safe. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

A discovery in Chernobyl could prevent cancer 38 years after nuclear disaster

Channel: Tech Tech March 8, 2024 By Dean Murray
Howling wolves in abandoned village (Chernobyl)

Mutant Chernobyl wolves now have anti-cancer genes

Channel: Tech Tech February 11, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

Putin says Russia has successfully tested feared 'flying Chernobyl' nuclear missile

Channel: World World October 6, 2023 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
Nuclear power plant at sunset

People blamed Chernobyl for deadly radiation. Now science has uncovered a darker secret

Channel: Tech Tech August 30, 2023 By Katherine Fidler
Rescues and police officers attend anti-radiation drills for case of an emergency situation at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer

Ukraine conducts nuclear drills near Zaporizhzhia amid fears of Russian attack

Channel: World World June 30, 2023 By Sam Corbishley
Charley Webb interviewed on this morning for Emmerdale

Charley Webb's first major TV role since Emmerdale revealed

Channel: Emmerdale Emmerdale February 7, 2023 By Maisie Spackman
Pictured Tim Mason. A man born with half a body says he refuses to let his disability hold him back and can run, cook, dance and walk his dog - without legs and an arm. See SWNS story SWSMhalf. Tim Mason, 25, is able to live fully independently and loves to walk his dog, cook, dance and work out on his treadmill - despite having no legs. He was born in Moscow, Russia, with no lower limbs and one arm and put in an orphanage - where they thought he was unlikely to ever be adopted. Tim was told by doctors that his biological mother was exposed to high amounts of radiation following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 - causing his disabilities.

Man born with half a body after Chernobyl still works out and walks dog everyday

Channel: World World November 22, 2022 By Jordan King
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Margot Robbie attends the "Amsterdam" European Premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on September 21, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Margot Robbie says Disney jumped ship on her female-led Pirates of the Caribbean remake

Channel: Film Film November 15, 2022 By Lucy Norris

Mutant black frogs created after years of Chernobyl radiation exposure

Channel: Tech Tech October 5, 2022 By Jeff Parsons
Zaporizhzhia power plant shut down

Europe's largest nuclear plant shut down over fears of radioactive disaster

Channel: World World September 12, 2022 By Sam Courtney-Guy