Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

(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 ...

Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of targeting the facility since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...