Brown’s book offers an implicit case for why Chernobyl still resonates today: it was not an isolated accident. Although the twin explosions at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant can be traced to ...

Long before he visited Chernobyl, photographer Philip Grossman witnessed a nuclear disaster right in his own backyard. “I … grew up 11 miles from the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was nearly 36 years ago, but it is again in the news after reports surfaced Wednesday morning that Russian forces have cut power to the ...

Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.

Related: Infographic: Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years later The area has recovered to some extent, but is far from returning to normal. But in the areas just outside the exclusion zone, people ...

Historic disaster. Soon, the world realized that it was witnessing a historic event. Up to 30 percent of Chernobyl’s 190 metric tons of uranium was now in the atmosphere, and the Soviet Union ...

Zircons formed in the hellish Chernobyl meltdown are changing how geologists understand their favourite crystals. Chernobyl was history’s worst nuclear disaster. Now it’s teaching geologists ...

Dogs living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop a new superpower - they are immune to radiation, heavy metals and pollution. Scientists collected blood samples ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 left behind a wasteland of abandoned buildings, contaminated land, and a legacy of radiation that still lingers today. But amidst this radioactive zone, a ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident , vast swathes of northern ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the now-abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat is perhaps the most infamous nuclear accident of all time. The initial explosion and subsequent fires at the plant ...

Now, They Don’t Need To ... In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster led to the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history.