Prompt radiation is emitted within moments of a nuclear detonation. Radioactive particles deposited in soil, water and ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

Italy's return to nuclear power reflects a broader shift. Here's why countries are reconsidering atomic energy after ...

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

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released massive radiation and affected millions. Dozens died immediately, with thousands more linked to long-term effects. The area remains restricted as cleanup continues ...

Nikolay Solovyov points to photograph depicting him in the control room in the nineties – Copyright Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP – Nikolay Solovyov was on shift ...

Vladimir Putin's "murderous" bombardment of the structure safeguarding Ukraine from a second Chernobyl catastrophe could disperse nuclear particles and "ramp up" cancer rates among children, a ...

(via Kyle Hill) On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to contain and eventually decommission the exploded Reactor 4 at ...

Anya wasn’t even born when Chernobyl exploded nearly 30 years ago, but even today its radioactive fallout stalks her and other Ukrainian youngsters growing up near the disused plant. The world’s worst ...

The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight his "first war" against radiation. The Barron's news ...