On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

Due to Armenia's lack of economic resources and the reactor's precarious structure, we can ascertain that such a nuclear reactor is an explosive that could go off at any moment. 'It would have similar ...

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area are rapidly evolving. And ...

This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The disaster occurred after a reactor exploded and expelled massive ...

Chernobyl nuclear disaster: April 28, 1986 Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged.

In February, a Russian drone strike damaged the new sarcophagus covering Chernobyl’s Reactor 4. As a result, several holes ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located in Ukraine’s territory, 18km away from the city of Chernobyl, 150km away from Kiev, and 16km away from Belarus’ border. In the 1980s it was the ...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...