So when knowledgeable people were required to help clean up the tonnes of radioactive water that had flooded the reactor and ...

Nuclear disaster sites, such as Chernobyl or Fukushima, remain highly radioactive, making cleanup efforts dangerous and ...

Taron Tunyan served in the Soviet 25th Chemical Brigade and arrived at the disaster site one day after the explosion. He spent 25 days participating in the clean-up effort. According to his ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It's a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show ...

Ever wonder what it would be like to experience the disaster that was Chernobyl, personally? What would it be like to be a ...

Just under 40 years ago, the most severe nuclear accident in history occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine. During a safety test, one of the nuclear plant’s four reactors exploded, in ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

Nuclear disaster in Ukraine is only a “matter of time” away as long as the international community fails to take tougher action against Russian recklessness, an expert has warned. On Monday ...

A Russian drone has hit the radiation shelter at the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The “high-explosive” warhead the ...