An area of 4,000 square kilometres around the nuclear power plant was abandoned after the 1986 disaster The first bottles of an "artisanal spirit" made using apples grown near the Chernobyl ...

The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which ...

The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history, one that has been covered countless times.

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Humans may be unable to return to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for 20,000 years because radiation exposure can lead to cancer. So a team of international researchers wondered how ...

The next phase of the project has begun to study which parts of the shelter built rapidly around Chernobyl's unit 4 after the 1986 accident need immediate dismantling and which bits need stabilisation ...

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 ...

The International Chernobyl Project was launched in 1990 at the request of the Government of the USSR to assess the environmental and health situation in the areas of the Soviet Union contaminated by ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of wa ...

The story of Chernobyl is told through a discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and deeply personal interviews of those who were there.

The game’s official title is Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, following from Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl release date is Wednesday ...