These kinds of drills emerged in the 1970s as a way to train for the unthinkable. The U.S. was experiencing a rash of nuclear ...

Without a stronger stance against Russian aggression near Ukrainian nuclear power plants, disaster is looming ‘closer and closer’, says historian Serhii Plokhy ...

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich returned to the place where she grew up to give voice to the people who lived through the events a ...

Although Chernobyl has left a devastating legacy across Europe’s former communist bloc, including East Germany, it is a crumb of comfort that it took place at the bitter end of the Cold War in an area ...

A Trump administration plan would end the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where similar oversight muzzling ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President ...

It’s difficult to comprehend what the consequences of a Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster taking place in Lubmin would have had. But it's no exaggeration to suggest the history of European would ...

Soon after the 1986 disaster, the inner layer (in which ... Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began in 1972, and it was considered a triumph of engineering on its completion ...

If the war goes on – as even Donald Trump has said he fears it might – it could intensify. Rather than let the horrendous ...

But as the war drags on we are edging towards nuclear disaster, in the view of Mr Plokhy. “We’re getting closer and closer to possible disaster as attacks now continue on Chernobyl ...