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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

One of the key areas that have seen significant improvement is education. Over the past four years, the government allocated approximately Br1.7 billion for the construction and renovation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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