When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin A second missile attack in the proximity to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant (NPP) has raised the ...

The costs of repairing the damaged New Safe Confinement at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine will be "in the order ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

The 26th of this month marks the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident that plunged the world into fear. While Chernobyl was long treated as a massive tragedy in Europe, the ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

Foreign ministers from the G7 are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...

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The protective shield that covers the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has "lost safety function" following a drone strike in February, the UN nuclear watchdog has said. The shield, which was ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Preparatory work has begun for installing solar panels which the operators of the Chernobyl plant site say will help meet ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About an hour and a half past midnight on April 26, 1986, an unexpected power surge coursed through a ...