When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

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

Netflix 5-part thriller ‘Radioactive Emergency’ dramatizes the real-life 1987 Goiânia Cesium-137 incident. The Netflix series ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

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

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 ...

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