Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

Chernobyl and Fukushima stand as the two most consequential nuclear accidents in human history, News.Az reports. Though separated by ...

A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no longer blocking radiation from the disaster site in Ukraine, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said. Ukraine said in February ...

(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 ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with ...

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 ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine left people wondering if radiation or artificial intelligence was to blame, but a veterinarian working in the ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...