The Chernobyl disaster took place in 1986, when a Russian power plant in Ukraine burst open, ejecting lethal nuclear matter into the Earth’s atmosphere. The plant’s reactor has been covered for 30 ...

Chernobyl MemorialChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 26 April 1986 - A routine 20-second shut down of the system seemed to be another test of the electrical equipment. But seven seconds later, a surge ...

The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents both share the notorious distinction of attaining the highest accident rating on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scale ...

On Friday, Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe’s largest nuclear facility, the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (also Zaporizhzhia or Zaporizʹka or Saporischschja), after their shelling set the ...

Yesterday, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency revised its preliminary rating of the Fukushima crisis, upgrading it to the highest level on the International Nuclear and Radiological ...

“Chernobyl,” of course, is shorthand for the April 26, 1986 disaster that befell Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It all started with a single mistake: Operators performing a safety test ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...

David E. Hoffman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a contributing editor to Foreign Policy. The terrible sequence of events in Japan — massive earthquake, and then a tsunami — make the nuclear ...

26 April 2011 — Special commemorative meeting of the General Assembly in observance of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe [ Webcast] On 26 April 2011, the General Assembly will hold a ...