Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Each day of war risks a ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

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 ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

Memorial services were held in Ukraine and elsewhere on April 26 to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 1 Ukrainian Ecology Minister Ruslan Strilets (center, wearing ...

The latest Russian strike on Ukraine’s power grid has turned one of the world’s most infamous nuclear sites into a fresh ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly ...

Chernobyl, the site of the world’s most well-known nuclear disaster, has been essentially abandoned since the infamous reactor meltdown of 1986 — with good reason, as the site has been contaminated by ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...