A traveler entered the abandoned hospital of Pripyat, the city evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster. The hallways were still covered with medical supplies, broken glass, old papers, and medicine ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

Scene from the former day care facility in the town of Pripyat - the company town for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was built as a shining example of the "Life Soviet" in the mid-seventies - ...

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 ...

HAVANA — Vladimir Zaslavsky’s convulsions began three years after Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor exploded, sending a radioactive plume across his Ukrainian hometown. Within two years, his muscles began ...

Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) ...