Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

Could the dogs inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) be experiencing rapid evolution due to their exposure to the nuclear radiation left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986? Some ...

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

According to a local scientist, the Chernobyl disaster led to major improvements in nuclear technology and energy.

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years of upheaval for the peaceful farming community, and left a devastating leg ...