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

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

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...

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 ...

It was the year famous for the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal, and Wham! splitting up ...

In films featuring mermaids, bioluminescent organisms and decommissioned military and energy sites, the artist’s work swirls with posthuman mythologies ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Investors take note: nuclear power has spent 25 years in stagnation, while renewable energy has seen unprecedented growth.

From Eldon Square Shopping Centre to the Tall Ships Race - 10 images recalling Newcastle in 1986 ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...