PRIPYAT, Ukraine — There's a silence in Pripyat that's unsettling but also hauntingly peaceful. There's no traffic or commotion in the streets or on the sidewalks. In fact, there are no cars or people ...

Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of ...

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 ...

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive ...

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A Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40 percent rise in trip bookings since the Chernobyl mini series made by HBO, began in May ...

The word Chernobyl became known worldwide shortly after the 1986 blast. The small town Pripyat, situated just 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, up to this day serves to remind about the ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the world, crawling with cockroaches and patrolled by radioactive mutant wolves ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive contamination and wild animals moved in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 ...