A fire continues at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after a strike on the shelter of the destroyed fourth reactor. As of ...

A fifteen-meter-wide hole in the roof of reactor number 4, the exact point of the 1986 explosion. Flames visible from ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the remnants of Reactor No. 4, especially the Elephant’s Foot—a dense, ...

“The heart of the reactor—the hot radioactive core—is in suspension ... which had already experienced some 150 significant radiation leaks at nuclear power stations throughout the world before the ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

The area of forest fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has exceeded ... on September 7 fire had covered roughly more than 2,600 hectares in the ...

A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but Belarus has been affected ...

Now, scientists suspect that solar storms powerful enough to collapse portions of modern power grids for months may hit the Earth more often than once in a century, reports The Guardian. The warning ...

And Chernobyl’s alarming new lesson? The February 14 drone strike demonstrates the most serious argument against the introduction of nuclear power to Australia. Power stations become easy targets in ...

A view of the town of Pripyat and the Chernobyl reactor (Getty) Researchers assessed around 100 hectares of land in the Zhytomyr region for contamination levels and predicted the uptake of ...