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 ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale ...

Experts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Norway have confirmed that after a drone attack, the ...

Experts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Norway have confirmed that the arch in Chernobyl, ...

My guide was Yuri Andreyev, a senior engineer at the plant who was head of the Chernobyl veterans’ association until his death in 2014. He took me to his former apartment in the town, where, as if on ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

The isolated — though devastating — Chernobyl accident of 1986 is often what first comes to mind when people think of a nuclear power plant. It has induced public fear and media portrayals of toxic ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says at least 14 people have died, including six children, following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian president's hometown of Kryvyi Rih.

Here is a detailed look at the eight most inhospitable places in the world. The coldest place on Earth, with temperature dropping below -80 degree Celsius in winter. It's a vast icy desert with almost ...

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

In a major mining region of Ukraine, President Trump’s proposal to collect profits from mineral wealth is meeting with a mix ...