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 ...

We explore the challenging, unmapped paths through the dense Chernobyl forest to reach Pripyat. Along the way, we deal with ...

HAUNTING images show the ghost city of Pripyat, Ukraine, which was evacuated 33 years ago after the Chernobyl explosion. The disaster was a catastrophic nuclear explosion that took place in 1986 – ...

Today, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is a ghost town, abandoned and overgrown in the wake of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. But once it was a thriving town, filled with people who ...

For residents of Chernobyl, a three-day evacuation turned into a thirty-year exile. On the morning of April 26, 1986, no one could yet tell that a meltdown in reactor 4 of the nuclear plant in ...

Forty years after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, former residents are still living with its consequences. Klavdia Omelchenko was among those evacuated from Pripyat after the ...

One of the world's most unlikely tourist attractions has been closed down. The nuclear exclusion zone around Chernobyl had previously attracted around 10,000 visitors per year, with each paying about ...