In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster led to the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ...

The exclusion zone around the abandoned nuclear site has become a haven for wildlife. Find out how it is being affected.

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The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of wa ...

Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus, then and now, beside the backdrop of the TV portrayal of the disaster Hours after the world's worst nuclear accident, engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control ...

A group of YouTubers went diving with a DIY scuba outfit under the radioactive Chernobyl power unit. Yeah, I know, that sounds like some mad story I’ve just generated on a wheel, but these people ...

Until the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Windscale fire was one of the worst nuclear accidents in history and remains the worst in Britain. Windscale was the world’s first full-scale atomic ...

On Feb. 24, 2022, the day the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, officers from the Russian National Guard and regular armed forces arrived at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in a column of ...

The next phase of the project has begun to study which parts of the shelter built rapidly around Chernobyl's unit 4 after the 1986 accident need immediate dismantling and which bits need stabilisation ...