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

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

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A fire at the site was ...

HBO and Sky UK’s miniseries Chernobyl is not the first attempt to depict the namesake nuclear disaster, but it is the most convincing one, distilling thorough research into an elaborate story. A major ...

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

Chernobyl and Fukushima stand as the two most consequential nuclear accidents in human history, News.Az reports. Though separated by ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...

(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 ...

A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine left people wondering if radiation or artificial intelligence was to blame, but a veterinarian working in the ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

CHERNOBYL (WKRC) - A video was posted on social media showing blue dogs walking around at Chernobyl. An Instagram account that's an affiliate of the non-profit Clean Futures Fund (CFF) and posts dogs ...

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...