Chernobyl Hour By Hour Explained By A Nuclear Engineer. A minute-by-minute breakdown of what really happened that night.

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Built to cool Chernobyl's reactors, a 22-square-mile pond became a predator-free sanctuary where 200-pound wels catfish now ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

Nearly 40 years after Italy abandoned nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is ...

The extreme investigators at How to Survive explore the terrifying real-world consequences and physical toll of spending 72 ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Italy's return to nuclear power reflects a broader shift. Here's why countries are reconsidering atomic energy after ...

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Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.