Around 30 people died from the immediate blast trauma of the reactor explosion and, while United Nations estimates that only ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to ...

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident ...

T he International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that Ukrainian engineers and workers are carrying out temporary repairs of the Chernobyl Reactor 4 containment site’s ...

Four hundred-forty reactors ... Since Chernobyl, the absence of high-profile accidents and concerns about global warming has helped soften attitudes on nuclear power. CFR’s 2009 world opinion ...

On 26 April 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the town of Pripyat in what was then the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded during a safety test gone ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power ... the reactor was supposed to shut down for planned maintenance. Due to restrictions of the control room ...

A late-night safety check at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled out of control. A surge of energy blew the reactor open while blasting radioactive material across Europe.

Ukraine continues to look for ways to repair the Chernobyl nuclear ... radioactive remains of a reactor that was the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.

Chernobyl: The Abyss is the first major Russian feature film about the aftermath of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station ... under the burning reactor. They have no time for ...