Nuclear watchdogs are sounding the alarm after finding that the dome that contains radiation at the Chernobyl disaster site ...

Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland told to ‘emphasise that the food chain was safeguarded in 1986’ ...

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. As a result of the accident, in the then Soviet Union, more than 400 times ...

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

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

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Surrounded by barbed wire, abandoned by man and infamous for a catastrophic nuclear accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is a byword for desolation. But climb to the top of an abandoned apartment ...

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

In the early morning of April 24, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a routine maintenance check. The accident, which saw the Chernobyl 4 reactor destroyed, is what many consider ...

Thirty years ago today, the the world's worst nuclear disaster took place. The world was left in a state of shock when a huge explosion and fire broke out at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The accident ...

The Chernobyl disaster is one of the worst nuclear accidents in history and the area still remains radioactive to this day. Check out what happened immediately after the reactors exploded and how some ...

The nuclear disaster in Chernobly affected thousands of lives (Picture: Laski Diffusion/Wojtek Laski/Getty Images/Hulton Archive) The Chernobyl TV drama on HBO and Sky Atlantic has drawn a lot of ...