While there might be impacts in a “very local area,” the bombing shouldn’t create “a massive environmental fallout,” one ...

Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged ...

The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the worst nuclear accident ever, in Chernobyl, now Ukraine, in 1986, expanded the ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the Elephant's Foot still sits underground. This radioactive mass formed ...

Past research had found that people exposed to Chernobyl fallout saw a greater risk of papillary thyroid cancers, especially among those who were young children at the time.

The fifth and final episode of HBO's "Chernobyl" brings a search for the right villains for the disaster. A recap of the horrifying political fallout.