Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

The director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has revealed that another Russian strike could collapse the inner radiation ...

Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland told to ‘emphasise that the food chain was safeguarded in 1986’ ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A fire at the site was ...

Even nearby explosions could lead to a catastrophic leak after an earlier strike damaged the outer radiation shell.

Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of targeting the facility since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

The New Safe Confinement dome protects the surrounding environment from leaking radiation, but a recent drone strike on the ...

HBO and Sky UK’s miniseries Chernobyl is not the first attempt to depict the namesake nuclear disaster, but it is the most convincing one, distilling thorough research into an elaborate story. A major ...