On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the ...

Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown is premiering on Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free live ...

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

Mourners, Orthodox priests, and widows gathered at night in Slavutich, Ukraine to remember the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident in history. A blast on ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...

Somewhere inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, three dogs have turned blue. Not figuratively, but actually blue. Earlier this month, volunteers from Dogs of Chernobyl were out catching strays for ...

Chernobyl, HBO Max's new Fukushima documentary film has emerged as the platform's number one hit domestically. Find out more.