Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

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The Belarusian Council of Ministers endorsed the draft Union State program for Belarus-Russia joint efforts to address the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. Belarusian Prime Minister Aleksandr ...

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

The Russian Emergencies Ministry has been instructed to submit the draft of this program to the Union State Council of ...

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent. She is based in Washington, D.C., and reports for all shows and platforms. The move, known as Immediate Needs Funding, is ...

Looking at formerly top secret communication between the KGB and Stasi, it is clear that despite publicly insisting everything was under control, both intelligence agencies knew the explosion was ...

Polish meteorologists have recalled their response to the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown 40 years ago, saying the accident in then-Soviet Ukraine caused a spike in radioactivity over Poland but was ...