Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of former cleanup workers who returned to Chernobyl ahead of the 40th anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster, revisited ...

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — A group of liquidators, who played a crucial role in the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, returned to the site ahead of the 40th anniversary of the explosion that ...