Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

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 ...

May 1 was one of the biggest holidays in the Soviet calendar—the worker's festival. In 1986, celebrations across the Soviet Union were overshadowed by what had happened just days before: the Chernobyl ...

Twenty years ago on Dec. 15, 2000 - 14 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster - the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine was permanently shut down. On April 26, 1986, two explosions ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

CHERNOBYL, Ukrainian SSR (WCSC) — Sunday marks 40 years since the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat in Ukraine. In 1986, an explosion and fire at the power plant ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentary on nuclear safety published on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, produced in a collaboration between the Project ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Japan must cool and isolate the nuclear fuel at its crippled atomic power station before trying to encase the reactors in a Chernobyl-style concrete sarcophagus, nuclear experts ...

A children's seesaw stands among former apartment buildings in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s to house the workers and families of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, now stands ...