People streamed in from different parts of the city to place candles on a large radiation hazard symbol as they marked the ...

Nearly 40 years after Italy abandoned nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

Italy's return to nuclear power reflects a broader shift. Here's why countries are reconsidering atomic energy after ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The extreme investigators at How to Survive break down the catastrophic events of the Chernobyl disaster, analyzing what went ...

The reactors at the Chernobyl and ZNPP stations differ in design and levels of containment. Yet as we learned from the nuclear accident in 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, precipitated by an earthquake and ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About an hour and a half past midnight on April 26, 1986, an unexpected power surge coursed through a ...