When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...

Ukraine has accused Vladimir Putin of putting the whole of Europe in danger, as it warned damage to the Chernobyl nuclear power by Russian troops could cause radiation leaks. Ukraine's state-run ...

Chernobyl was back in the news recently as the decrepit nuclear plant changed hands during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and power was briefly cut. The unstable situation raised fears that pools of ...

The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...

Lewis Blackburn receives funding from EPSRC through the provision of a Doctoral Prize Fellowship. The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at ...

More than 35 years have passed since a steam explosion and fires at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused massive amounts of radioactive material to be released into the environment. Time seems to ...