This video breaks down the Chernobyl disaster by focusing on the machine at its core: the RBMK reactor. We explain how nuclear reactors work in principle, then show what made the RBMK different - from ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

There have been three major accidents at commercial nuclear reactors – Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011). Let’s take a look at each of these accidents to see what ...

Engineers are completing plans for what may be the largest movable structure ever built -- a 20,000-ton steel shell to enclose Chernobyl Reactor 4, site of an apocalyptic nuclear accident whose ...

A Russian drone struck the containment shell protecting the radioactive reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing significant damage, Ukraine claimed Friday morning. The protective ...

THE 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster left behind a legacy of devastation, with radiation levels so extreme that the area was ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that Ukrainian engineers and workers are carrying out temporary repairs of the Chernobyl Reactor 4 containment site’s New Safe Confinement ...

On the morning of April 28, 1986, an employee of the Forsmark nuclear power plant an hour north of Stockholm was returning from a restroom break when his shoes set off the radiation alarm. Soon ...

The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi has already been dubbed the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and the situation there continues to worsen. But along with references to the “ch-word,” as ...