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 ...

After missile hit city near sensitive site, experts say strike on nuclear reactor would pose little risk of Chernobyl-like ...

After the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, the Soviet Union launched an enormous emergency response. Thousands of workers, soldiers, and specialists ...

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

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

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

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...