Radiation readings soared 16 times higher than normal around the fire, which broke out in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

More than eight years after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged a Fukushima power plant, Japan has not formally decided what to do with contaminated water from the incident.

Scientists have produced a bottle of "Atomik Vodka" using water and grains harvested from close to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

An Edmonton tour guide takes you through what it's like to travel through the site considered home of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

Some Chernobyl visitors have taken photos of themselves partially naked and smiling while at the nuclear disaster site.

A German-Ukrainian power company has installed hundreds of solar panels within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, as the Ukrainian government moves to reduce its energy reliance on Russia.

The Czech Republic has an unusual problem this winter with its wild boar meat: the boars are radioactive.

A massive shelter has finally been installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world.

It's been three decades since the world's worst nuclear disaster. Why one Winnipeg photographer has returned, almost annually, to Chernobyl and the decimated towns surrounding it for nearly 20 years.

Maksym Stolyarevskyy was just three and half when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster hit but remembers vivid details of the days that followed.