The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 31 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died ...

In the wake of the Chernobyl explosion, while most fled the radioactive zone, others were sent in. Over 600,000 people — ...

In 2018, researchers even sent one of the Chernobyl molds, a strain dubbed Cladosporium sphaerospermum, to the International ...

An employee walks through a pump room of the stopped third reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Reuters Chernobyl could still be “killing us,” according to a new book ...

Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a ...

The meltdown of one of the four reactors of the massive nuclear power plant near the town of Chernobyl in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was the result of badly flawed reactor design, sloppy ...

Thirty three years ago, after an explosion at a nearby power plant, the city of Pripyat in (what is now) Ukraine was evacuated. “Our guides, essentially, were two guys that were teenagers at the time ...

The fires have come within a mile of the former nuclear power station. Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and ...

AT THE ENTRANCE to the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine stand two kiosks, painted a radioactive shade of yellow. Along with snacks for the tourists who descend ...

Stray dogs in Chernobyl reveal genetic changes after decades of radiation, offering unique clues about how life adapts in ...

Sky has claimed that its HBO co-production Chernobyl has become the biggest BAFTA-winning series ever after clinching nine gongs across the BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards. The nuclear ...