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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

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, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure ...

Chernobyl, a synonym of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. The 1986 explosion at the nuclear power plant in then-Soviet Ukraine was hundreds of times mightier than the two atomic bombs ...