WASHINGTON — Few regions on Earth are as poorly equipped to handle military conflict as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, where a reactor meltdown in 1986 caused the greatest ...

The White House expressed horror at Russian military forces seizing the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its staff as part of the invasion of Ukraine. “We are outraged by credible reports ...

Russian forces took over the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine on Thursday. Press secretary Jen Psaki called reports the plant's staff was taken hostage "incredibly alarming." It's unclear how the ...

The Soviet-built Chernobyl nuclear power station was the site of the world’s worst atomic-energy disaster. (sergei supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The White House criticized Russia in ...

WASHINGTON — The White House is expressing outrage at “credible reports” from Ukrainian officials that the staff at the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear plant have been taken hostage by Russian troops.

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — The road through the forest, abandoned, is at times barely discernible, covered with the debris of fallen tree limbs, vines, leaves and moss pushing up through cracks in the ...