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 ...

The sad story behind those Studio Ghibli memes, humans require a “modest death event” to understand AGI risk, robots-in-homes ...

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

Her book, Voices from Chernobyl, consists of a series of monologues and is a record of the oral history of the people of Belarus, those who were scarred by the event – knowingly or unknowingly ...

Chernobyl unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident (you can read more about it in the World Nuclear Association's Chernobyl Accident information paper) with a shelter constructed in a matter of ...

It said the IAEA team at Chernobyl had reported multiple air raid alarms over the past week. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident (you can read more about it ...

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 ...

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

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.

A charity providing respite trips for children with health conditions from the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster has had to stop operating after several world events made their services inoperable.