This year is rich in commemorative anniversaries of natural and man-made disasters stemming from the use of nuclear energy for peaceful and military purposes. In March, we solemnly observed the 10th ...

KYIV, Ukraine — The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor ...

The Ukrainian authorities decided to use the deserted exclusion zone around the Chernobyl power plant to build a repository where Ukraine could store its nuclear waste for the next 100 years. AP It ...

In April 1986 — 35 years ago this week — some 30 people were killed when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, in ...

Two new studies have taken a closer look at the health effects the 1986 Chernobyl explosion had on those who were in the area at the time. The studies specifically detail the disaster’s effect on ...

The Chernobyl nuclear accident has become part of pop-culture history, the subject of numerous books and an acclaimed 2019 HBO miniseries. But the 35-year-old disaster isn’t entirely in the past.

Thirty-five years ago, when the nuclear reactor unit at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, I was a physician among the first responders ...

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If you like your alcohol with a nuclear kick to it, you'll still have to wait after Ukrainian authorities seized over 1,500 bottles of Atomik, an alcoholic spirit made by apples grown near the ...

The catastrophe at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant happened 35 years ago. It was the largest anthropogenic disaster in the history of humankind. Belarus was the worst-hit country, suffering enormous ...