A nuclear engineer reacts to The Infographics Show's breakdown of the Chernobyl disaster emergency response, examining what ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

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The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then... 40 years after families survived the Chernobyl ...

Ukraine’s president lashed out at Russia, accusing it of “nuclear terrorism,” as Kyiv observed the 40th anniversary of the explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, the world’s worst ...

Oksana Masters is one of Team USA’s greatest Paralympic athletes, and her inspiring journey from a Ukrainian orphanage shaped by the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster is one of resilience, ...

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight ...

On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...

The Days on Netflix is a must-watch eight-episode thriller about Fukushima, human courage, and the choices behind a nuclear ...