After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

We spent 100 hours in the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Exclusion Zone, gaining access to highly restricted areas—including ...

Three men entered the flooded basement beneath Chernobyl's destroyed Reactor 4 to open two drainage valves. The famous ...