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

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a tour to ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

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

In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

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 ...

The site of Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant -- partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown -- lost power on Wednesday after Russia shelled a nearby substation, Kyiv said. The UN's atomic energy ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on October 1 accused Russia of intentionally creating a risk of nuclear incidents after a drone attack cut off power to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear ...

(Reuters) -Russian air strikes have cut power to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, including a new containment unit erected to minimise ...