After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

A “SUPER fungus” colonising the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant is mystifying scientists. Clinging to the ...

Engineers take on one of the most dangerous heavy-lift projects ever attempted: moving a massive steel superstructure over ...

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

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...

On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...

Dry weather, strong winds and the presence of land mines are complicating efforts to bring the blaze under control ...

Russia hasn’t publicly commented on the alleged attack on the ‌facility, which is around ‌9 miles from the Chernobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...

April 26 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1607, the first British colonists to establish a permanent settlement in America landed at Cape Henry, Va. In 1933, Nazi Germany's secret police, better ...