While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine was the worst nuclear accident in history, triggering catastrophic consequences for the local people and the whole of the Soviet Union. The attack also meant ...

The release of HBO’s Chernobyl has undoubtedly led to an increase in dialogue on nuclear power, its safety and the disaster itself. Numerous articles have both praised the show and questioned some of ...

The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...

Part 1. Birth of a city. The Soviet Prometheus -- Alpha, beta, gamma -- Friday, April 25, 5:00 p.m., Pripyat -- Secrets of the peaceful atom -- Friday, April 25, 11: ...

Nataliia Khodemchuk’s husband Valery died in the initial explosion at Reactor 4 in 1986 - State Agency of Ukraine of on Exclusion Zone Management The widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl ...

KIEV, Ukraine - An international effort to seal the destroyed remains of the nuclear reactor that exploded in Ukraine 30 years ago is finally close to completion, and remarkably, considering the ...