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 ...

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 population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl ... control rods from the reactor core, which led to an uncontrolled sequence of nuclear fission. At 1:4 AM on April 26, a ...

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.

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia The February 14 drone attack on Chernobyl’s super-shielded reactor ...

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.