The Soviets ignored the dosimeters until the roof came off the reactor. The question is whether America still recognises the sound the alarms make before the concrete starts splitting open.

Chornobyl proved not only the dangers of nuclear power, but also how concealing the truth from the people contributed to the ...

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A Swiss mansion that was the site of the 1985 Geneva Summit that brought together President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is on the auction block, with bids starting at ...

Forty years ago, a reactor taught the world what arrogance and opacity can do to atoms under pressure. Forty years on, the ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...

As Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, its president Volodmyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of committing “nuclear terrorism” by regularly flying attack drones ...

Looking at formerly top secret communication between the KGB and Stasi, it is clear that despite publicly insisting everything was under control, both intelligence agencies knew the explosion was ...

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but persistent radiation keeps it central to safety research and disaster memory.

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found. Reading time 3 minutes The most expensive nuclear disaster in human history ...

When something arouses strong emotions, it tends to be difficult to have a rational discussion about it. And the strongest emotion is fear. We should keep that in mind whenever nuclear energy is ...

Read on to learn how in the shadow of this toxic time bomb and with history threatening to repeat itself, life somehow goes on AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew ...