Shutterstock When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown, it was a terrifying event for people around the world. As ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s sustained bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid is deepening concerns about the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities after a drone knocked out power for more than ...

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 ...