The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

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

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...