When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

The Chernobyl explosion and resulting fire spewed 200 times as much radioactivity into the environment as the Hiroshima and ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

Scientists have been stunned to find a strange, pitch‑black fungus thriving inside one of the most radioactive buildings on ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

The 26th of this month marks the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident that plunged the world into fear.

Foreign ministers from the G7 are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...