The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the ...

The world does not have an answer yet to what would happen to humanity if machines start 'thinking', UC Berkeley professor ...

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 ...

Mourners, Orthodox priests, and widows gathered at night in Slavutich, Ukraine to remember the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident in history. A blast on ...

(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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: CNN and Nat Geo are teaming up for their latest international series, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown.

The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...