The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, ...

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 ...

Haunting drone footage shows what the Chernobyl nuclear power plant looks like almost three decades after it was left devastated by an historic toxic explosion. The eerie bird’s eye view shows how the ...

Thirty-five years ago, Pripyat—a Ukranian city near the country's northern border with Belarus—was a thriving town of 50,000 residents built in the shadow of the Chernobyl Power Plant, where many of ...

Efrem Lukatsky/AP A decrepit piano stands in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 5, 2017. Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Travel into the radioactive basement of Pripyat Hospital in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The first responders to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident were the firemen of Pripyat. They absorbed ...

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 ...