The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans. In February a Russian drone put a hole in it.

Ever wonder what it would be like to experience the disaster that was Chernobyl, personally? What would it be like to be a ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began in ... and reports were lost when the Soviet Union broke up. After the disaster, an 18-mile radius known as the “Exclusion Zone” was ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...