Thirty-eight years after Chernobyl, we are again on a nuclear knife-edge Chernobyl isn’t something that happened in the past. The ultimate toll of death and disease is still to be fully realised ...

Beyond Chernobyl, there are concerns about the lasting environmental damage from the Russian invasion. Ukraine has 15 operational nuclear reactors, which accounts for more than half the country ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure, is a defunct facility in Ukraine which was the site of the world's worst civil ...

What makes these cute, innocent, eager puppies so dangerous? They are among the roughly 900 strays who live in and around the ...

The contrast with the fire-fighters of Chernobyl is stark. The men called upon to contain the fires and lethal toxicity of the blazing nuclear power plant at Chernobyl 19 years ago are a mystery ...

The V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station at Chernobyl, with its four RBMK nuclear reactors, was the pride of the Soviet Union, generating electricity for 30 million homes and businesses.

A hero who saved the world in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion has been pictured today fleeing for his life, as he attempts to escape his blitzed homeland. Alexei - or Oleksiy - Ananenko, 62 ...

Crueller still was the impact of the reactor core breakdown on unborn children. The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, at unit number four in the plant near Pripyat, northern Ukraine.

Chernobyl: Countdown to Armageddon, a new documentary on Channel 5 presented by Ben Fogle, unmasks the events that led to the 1986 nuclear accident, giving a fascinating glimpse into what it looks ...

Russia is set to test an ‘unstoppable doomsday’ nuclear missile, new satellite imagery has suggested. With the chilling nickname ‘flying Chernobyl’, this reported test comes as fears of World War III ...

Marie Curie’s pioneering research on radioactive elements led to lasting dangers, including her remains and belongings still ...