On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...

Forty years have passed, and today we have a great deal of experience on how to live and work in the affected territories.

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus has made significant efforts to tackle radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, CIS First Deputy Secretary General Igor Petrishenko said during ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the worst nuclear accident in history. This disaster released a radioactive plume ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...

On the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, The Athletic’s Richard Sutcliffe recalls a visit to the nearby town of Pripyat, once home to a proud and ambitious football club, ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...