The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...

The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 31 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died ...

Across three weeks are a range of documentaries beginning with 48 Hours: Escape From Chernobyl at 7:30pm tonight.

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after the disaster. This journey follows a rare visit inside the exclusion zone, ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But what does this mean? Is the former site of the accident still potentially ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...

Suggested Citation: "Front Matter." Mary Mycio. 2005. Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/11318. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of ...

LONDON (AP) — A book about the causes and consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has won Britain's leading nonfiction literary award. Serhii Plokhy was awarded the 30,000-pound ($39,000) ...