When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...

KYIV, Ukraine--The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor ...

Hopefully it will happen in Fukushima too, a few decades down the line. Try at least 70 years. Why do they not put a shelter on the exploded Fukushima nuclear plant too? Japanese way is to wait one to ...

Reactor No. 4 at the power plant exploded and caught fire deep in the night on April 26, 1986, shattering the building and spewing radioactive material high into the sky. Soviet authorities made the ...

Timothy Mousseau, a USC professor with a PhD in biology, and his colleagues have begun conducting the only on-site research ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday inaugurated a giant structure built to confine radioactive debris at the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chernobyl in 1986.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine -- It has been 30 years since disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, on April 26, 1986. The worst nuclear accident in ...

VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog has said that the protective structure surrounding the exploded reactor at Chernobyl can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, after a Russian ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays? In May 1997, Nelli Zhdanova entered one ...

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 ...

A shelter construction covers the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's nuclear energy ...