Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Chernobyl and Fukushima stand as the two most consequential nuclear accidents in human history, News.Az reports. Though separated by ...

A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no longer blocking radiation from the disaster site in Ukraine, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said. Ukraine said in February ...

HBO and Sky UK’s miniseries Chernobyl is not the first attempt to depict the namesake nuclear disaster, but it is the most convincing one, distilling thorough research into an elaborate story. A major ...

In Ukraine, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant are ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with experts cautioning that a critical containment structure is at risk of collapse, ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

Chornobyl nuclear plant's protective shield can no longer confine radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, U.N. nuclear watchdog said. This comes after alleged Russian drone strikes on the plant ...