Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed attention to nuclear power and its future.

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

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 ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

Decades of anti-nuclear protests in Germany, stoked by past accidents, had pressured successive governments to end using a technology that critics saw as unsafe and unsustainable. Germany switched off ...

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 ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and serious mismanagement had caused the worst nuclear disa ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all external power for an hour, the UN nuclear watchdog reported. The outage, the 15th since ...