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

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 ...

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 ...

One crazy man wanted Scuba dive under the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor! Through those same flooded technical tunnels where Super ...

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 ...

British cinematographer Danny Cooke has captured the abandoned city of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Zone Of Alienation on film using a drone. Cooke shot the footage when he was in Chernobyl on assignment ...

The Pride of Pripyat: Tales from Chernobyl - The ghost town of Pripyat, once the growing little city next to Chernobyl, is at the center of this poignant, tragic, quirky, wistful story about those who ...