A reactor at the nuclear plant melted down in 1986, releasing smoke and causing thousands of deaths from radiation.

Chernobyl's "exclusion zone" - a 32-km (19-mile) radius around the plant - remains largely devoid of human life, 36 years after a flawed reactor design and series errors by its operators caused a ...

The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

CHERNOBYL has transformed wild dogs into radiation ... to test the turbine but the reactor overheated and generated a blast - the equivalent of 500 nuclear bombs. The reactor's roof was blown ...