Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to the tragic helicopter crash during the Chernobyl cleanup, as explained by That Chernobyl Guy. We ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

Nataliia Khodemchuk’s husband Valery died in the initial explosion at Reactor 4 in 1986 - State Agency of Ukraine of on Exclusion Zone Management The widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...

Most TV shows lose most of their emotional potency with a second viewing, but this masterful miniseries actually hits even ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

As The Washington Post reports, Russia is so upset about the HBO show that a Russian company has decided to film its own series about Chernobyl-and in this version, the United States plays a role in ...