Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) ...

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's ...

April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured ...

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 deadliest room in Chernobyl. A nuclear engineer reacts to That Chernobyl Guy and examines the hazards and history ...

A recent announcement that 177 cities, towns and villages will lose their “contaminated” status on January 1, 2027 affects ...

Thirty-nine years ago, a series of traumatic events in everyday life filled the country with fear. But thanks to the ...