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 ...
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, two explosions rocked the nuclear power plant near the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl, then part of the Soviet Union. The accident at reactor four spewed radioactive ...
THE Ukrainian widow of the first Chernobyl victim has been killed by a Russian drone blast. Nataliia Khodemchuk died after ...
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 exclusion zone still carries radiation hotspots, making exploration dangerous. Crumbling buildings, gas masks on classroom floors, and rusted Ferris wheels tell the story of a catastrophe that ...
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 ...