Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then exploded again just seconds later. In this video, we break down the RBMK reactor ...

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Foreign ministers from the G7 are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...

Scientists have been stunned to find a strange, pitch‑black fungus thriving inside one of the most radioactive buildings on ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

Netflix 5-part thriller ‘Radioactive Emergency’ dramatizes the real-life 1987 Goiânia Cesium-137 incident. The Netflix series ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

In November 2016, a massive metal dome was erected over the remains of the reactor paid for with almost 2.5 billion dollars ...

Jo Nesbo's detective Harry Hole has been adapted once for the big screen, without success. Now the author himself is on the case in a ...

African countries are turning to nuclear energy to boost power supply and cut emissions. Yet complex financing, long ...

For three decades, the real strategic story of West Asia has not been oil, terrorism or even ideology. It has been nuclear ...