While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

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 ...

The power loss comes after the UN’s nuclear watchdog previously warned the protective shield at the Chernobyl power plant can ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

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 ...

Most TV shows lose most of their emotional potency with a second viewing, but this masterful miniseries actually hits even ...

An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts say that the chances are ...

Chernobyl is a historical drama miniseries by HBO, based on the true story of the catastrophic Chernobyl nuclear disaster in ...