The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and ...

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

For decades, Massachusetts has effectively banned the construction of new nuclear reactors. Now, Governor Maura Healey says ...

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and EVGENIY MALOLETKA CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...