Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, one of its most haunting remnants still lies deep inside the damaged reactor building, a mass so radioactive that it once had the power to kill within ...

The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded ...

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 ...