Four decades after the 1986 reactor accident forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, the contaminated land ...

Forty years after the disaster, wolves, lynx and wild horses thrive at sevenfold density in Chernobyl, though abundance isn't ...

A black fungus found inside Chernobyl has an unusual relationship with something that is dangerous to humans: ionizing ...

Melanized fungi found inside Chernobyl's reactor not only survived lethal radiation but may convert it to energy - though ...

The German government intends to provide €50 million ($58 million) to repair the protective shell around the ruin of the ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

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 ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation environment ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that ...

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 ...