A recent drone attack on Chernobyl is a reminder of the nuclear threat remaining there. One wrong move could trigger a ...

He spent 25 days participating in the clean-up effort. According to his official ... Malish spent four and a half months at and near Chernobyl after the disaster, helping with decontamination ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

There’s an organism thriving within the Chernobyl disaster zone that is not only enduring some of the harshest living ...

a nuclear-waste-disposal researcher at the University of Sheffield who's been assisting with the Chernobyl cleanup. That might not be the case in certain areas of the Marshall Islands, an area in ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster. The latest Russian research, carried out by Victor Chizhikov at the ...

PITTSBURGH--The Soviet official responsible for the decontamination of the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant has acknowledged for the first time that his country was forced to abandon mechanical ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

Read more: How dangerous is it to visit Chernobyl? We asked a nuclear-waste expert involved in the cleanup. For decades, the tourists who did come to the area were only permitted to observe the ...

WASHINGTON--One week after the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in April 1986, Soviet contacts called Carnegie Mellon University robot researcher William ("Red") Whittaker to ask for help in saving ...