The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

The Pentagon has said that Russian troops are leaving the Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine, where fighting led to workers forced to work around the clock to prevent any further meltdowns

Ukraine's armed forces say there is a danger of ammunition exploding at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station and that Russian forces occupying the plant must pull out of the area, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Wednesday.

Russian soldiers kicked up clouds of radioactive dust as they seized the nuclear power plant Chernobyl, two workers from the site have said

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said.

Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk accuses Putin’s forces of ‘irresponsible’ acts at the plant

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the use of old volatile weapons in the Chernobyl exclusion zone further risk of damage

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said Russian forces were "militarising" the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear accident in 1986

Iryna Vereshchuk also urges UN Security Council to take immediate steps to demilitarise zone

In 2011, as Indonesia planned to start a nuclear energy program, a giant warning sign crashed in from Japan: the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The disaster was triggered by a gigantic tsunami and it resulted in a broadcast of radioactive pollution over a stretch of Japan’s countryside and across the Pacific…