The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

The sad story behind those Studio Ghibli memes, humans require a “modest death event” to understand AGI risk, robots-in-homes ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

When the war began on 24 February 2022, explosions erupted near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine’s northern Kyiv region. Earlier that day Russian troops had entered from the Belarus border ...

The Foreign Ministry says it cannot sponsor an exhibit by hibakusha atomic bomb survivors at the United Nations because it contains panels about the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters.

This was significant because the Soviets were denying that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl had taken place. Satellite imagery, it was now clear, could show events and places in countries where ...

While the Chernobyl Humidifier has attracted attention for its innovative design, some may feel that the subject matter is not suitable for a home appliance. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster had long ...

The images of these children, eating at the family dinner table ... Karmanau had long followed the story of Chernobyl, whose radioactive cloud poisoned part of his native Belarus. His leads came from ...