A Russian drone strike has pierced the heart of Chernobyl's protective shield, exposing the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster to new risks amid ongoing conflict. The International Atomic Energy Agency ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount-owned Channel 5 has greenlit The Chernobyl Disaster, which it promises is the “definitive look at the Chernobyl disaster timeline” three years after Sky/HBO’s award-winning ...

Ukraine’s Minister of Power and Electrification Vitali Sklyarov tells Soviet Life magazine that the odds of a meltdown at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant are “one in 10,000 years.” The plant’s ...

Denis Fougerouse is affiliated with the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and The Institute for Geoscience Research at Curtin University. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American CHERNOBYL, Ukraine—The face mask and three ...

May 1 was one of the biggest holidays in the Soviet calendar—the worker's festival. In 1986, celebrations across the Soviet Union were overshadowed by what had happened just days before: the Chernobyl ...

My aunt recently reminded me that everything changed on April 26, 1986. I knew this, of course, but it wasn’t often that my family talked about the accident or the evacuation. When I was growing up in ...