FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, ...

A disturbing trend is manifesting itself in developing countries – the uncalled for craving for nuclear energy. Its equation with economic and industrial revolution in the third world is a smack in ...

On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions ripped through the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The ensuing radioactive fallout spread across Ukraine, Belarus and ...

MOSCOW -- The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Slavutych City authorities have signed a memorandum of cooperation with the goal of developing local tourism as part of the post-war revival of the region.

Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl appear to have developed resistance to cancer - raising hopes the findings can help scientists fight the disease in humans. A nuclear reactor ...

Chernobyl survivors have described the grim health issues and continued impact of radiation on their lives that they still suffer from 37 years later. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko was 34 and working as the ...

Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has approved the release of the first 20 tonnes of carbon steel from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for reuse elsewhere in the country. The commercial operation of the ...