Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Oleksandr Hryhorash, an inspector at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, warns about the world's inadequate response to ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

Dogs living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop a new superpower - they are immune to radiation, heavy metals and pollution. Scientists collected blood samples ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, or Fukishima in Japan, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

Gold’s latest quarterly gains now seriously rival the rise seen in 1986, the year of the Chernobyl disaster. The comparison ...

The 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted AP journalists in Eastern Europe to produce disturbing environmental stories near the site in Ukraine and also from Mayak, the scene of ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

For some leukemia patients, each hour of delayed care can be the difference between life and death. JHU's Eugene Shenderov is ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure ... a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month.

A charity providing respite trips for children with health conditions from the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster has had to stop operating after several world events made their services inoperable.

Places that will forever be remembered as the sites of nuclear disasters. Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are ...