The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that drone impacts have degraded the Chernobyl steel protective ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Chernobyl lay on the path to the capital Kyiv. When the plant was occupied by Russian ...

In April 1986, exactly 40 years ago, Tim Eggar was asleep at home when – for the first time in his four years in government – ...

Wildlife is thriving again four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population ...

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...