Pripyat was once a thriving Soviet “atom city,” built for the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Then disaster struck — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...

One of the most eerie places on earth, which has become a haven for dark tourism, was evacuated and abandoned overnight. Now, ...

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Most people who visit Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone are interested in seeing the deserted city of Pripyat, a place full of decay. The Ukrainian government is increasingly promoting the zone as a place ...

One crazy man wanted Scuba dive under the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor! Through those same flooded technical tunnels where Super Sus dove. My friend and I helped him carry air tanks and cut a hole in the ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...