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 ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now ...

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 ...

While Russia and Ukraine continue targeting each other's energy infrastructure amid their war, backup systems are critical for ensuring safety.

The power loss comes after the UN’s nuclear watchdog previously warned the protective shield at the Chernobyl power plant can no longer contain radioactive material due to damage caused by a drone ...

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

(CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, ...