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

Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine ... information in the immediate aftermath of the meltdown. But we don't know if what Zharkov says ...

While President Trump continues his “drill, baby, drill” energy agenda and many of his backers dismiss climate change as a harmless side effect of progress, New York has continued its march to a ...

A fungus has been discovered growing on the Number 4 reactor, feeding off the radiation that preceded the tragic Chernobyl nuclear disaster which led to thousands evacuating ...

This was significant because the Soviets were denying that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl had taken place ... the extreme heat of the reactor meltdown.

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 ... it stands as a grim reminder of nuclear disaster. Created in the meltdown’s extreme heat, this deadly mass fused uranium, steel, concrete, and ...

Beyond that temperature, meltdown will commence, and everything basically becomes fuel for the reaction.'' It’s difficult to comprehend what the consequences of a Chernobyl-scale nuclear ...