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

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

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 ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to That Chernobyl Guy’s breakdown of the most radioactive object found at Chernobyl. We explore why ...

Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that ...

The power loss comes after the UN’s nuclear watchdog previously warned the protective shield at the Chernobyl power plant can ...

Chernobyl is a historical drama miniseries by HBO, based on the true story of the catastrophic Chernobyl nuclear disaster in ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...

(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 ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine lost all off-site power following widespread military activity on Tuesday, the ...

On 23 January, Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva Larisa Belskaya, met with Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk ...