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 ...

An explosion caused a fire overnight at the site of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday. The agency said the blast was ...

is forever imprinted in the world's memory after a botched test led to a devastating explosion. The Chernobyl catastrophe saw reactor four of the Soviet nuclear power plant burst into flames ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

KIEV, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that an explosion sounded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) site overnight. "The IAEA team at the Chernobyl ...

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

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... not breach the plant's inner containment shell. The IAEA did not attribute blame, saying only that its team stationed at the site heard an explosion and ...

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine -- A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early ... the site heard an explosion and was informed ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... breach the plant’s inner containment shell. The IAEA did not attribute blame, saying only that its team stationed at the site heard an explosion and was ...

The event of what took place at a nuclear power station ... examined Greifswald Power Plant’s four pressurized water reactors and deemed them as dangerous as Chernobyl’s.

Getty Images Ukraine is home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant where a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred. Getty Images Three Mile Island, home to a massive nuclear plant that had a ...