Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Soviet Ukraine suffered a critical failure on April 26, 1986. On the night of the incident, at 1.23am local time, Reactor Four of the Soviet power plant ...

The Chernobyl disaster is regarded as the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident. The nuclear accident occurred at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat ...

Thirty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986. The explosion ...

Chernobyl nuclear power plant was hit by a Russian attack overnight, striking a protective shield over its destroyed fourth reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The structure, known ...

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Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...

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

Almost 40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, animals continue to face the consequences from extreme radiation exposure, with them being forced to mutate to survive. Humans fled the disaster zone ...

Russian drone strikes damaged a structure containing remains from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine - one of the largest nuclear disasters in human history ...

A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how NASA’s secret weapon may reshape future space missions.

A hero of the Chernobyl nuclear tragedy took his own life in Moscow, no longer able to cope with the ravages of radiation poisoning. Plant engineer Viktor Smakov, 75, jumped from a balcony on his high ...