More than three decades after the worst nuclear accident in history, workers are still scrambling to prevent the spread of radiation. On April 26, 1986, the core of a reactor opened at the Chernobyl ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

Chernobyl was back in the news recently as the decrepit nuclear plant changed hands during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and power was briefly cut. The unstable situation raised fears that pools of ...

A crucial steel arch protecting Chernobyl's destroyed reactor can no longer perform its core safety role, UN's nuclear watchdog has revealed. Damage from a "kamikaze" drone strike on February 14 left ...

The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the surroundings ...

The Russian military’s capture of the Chernobyl nuclear facility in northern Ukraine last week led to heightened levels of both radioactivity and confusion. Since the infamous 1986 explosion at ...