Chernobyl and Fukushima stand as the two most consequential nuclear accidents in human history, News.Az reports. Though separated by ...

The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 31 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died ...

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

The fires have come within a mile of the former nuclear power station. Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and ...

The meltdown of one of the four reactors of the massive nuclear power plant near the town of Chernobyl in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was the result of badly flawed reactor design, sloppy ...

AT THE ENTRANCE to the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine stand two kiosks, painted a radioactive shade of yellow. Along with snacks for the tourists who descend ...

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history occurred after a botched safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in what was then the Soviet Union. The accident caused ...

In “Chernobyl,” HBO’s gripping miniseries devoted to the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in 1986, the hero in a catastrophic situation is Valery Legasov, a scientist who was one of the first to ...