Forty years ago a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine tore itself apart during a failed test, triggering the worst violent release of radioactive debris into the atmosphere.

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear ...

Despite past fears from Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear energy is re-emerging as a reliable, clean power source. France's ...

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The project tells the story of the nuclear energy development in the USSR, the accident itself, the elimination of its consequences, the fates of those close to the events, and the way Chernobyl ...

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after ...

Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced more than 100,000 people from their homes, the forests around the Chernobyl reactor are teeming with life that was never supposed to return.

Forty years is a long time. Long enough to forget the taste of fear, to let the headlines fade, to convince yourself that a thing that happened is a thing ...

The “Bright Fire” of Bealtaine’s May 1 came early to polish April’s capricious weather inside the cheerful 3rd floor of the ...

In an interview with the newspaper Berliner Zeitung, Igor Sekreta, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, levels serious accusations against Germany. The discussion concerns not only ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...