April 26 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1607, the first British colonists to establish a permanent settlement in America landed at Cape Henry, Va. In 1933, Nazi Germany's secret police, better ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...