The explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1986 is one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, releasing vast amounts of radioactive waste upon Eastern Europe ...

Chernobyl on HBO and Sky Atlantic examined the fall-out of the nuclear power plant explosion in the Ukranian town of Pripyat. However, while people have not been able to live in the area since, plant ...

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For 26 years forests around Chernobyl have been absorbing radioactive elements, but a fire would send them skyward again--a concern as summers grow longer, hotter and drier CHERNOBYL, Ukraine – Most ...

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might ...

Almost 30 years ago, the world's attention was fixed on Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded in one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The world has moved on since that ...

In the clear, calm, early hours of May 15, 2003, three miles west of the hulking ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vasyl Yoschenko was bustling around a stand of Scotch pines planted 30 ...

For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the Chernobyl exclusion zone: 2,600 square kilometres of contaminated land and the most visible legacy of the worst nuclear accident in human ...

Almost 30 years ago, the world's attention was fixed on Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded in one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The world has moved on since that ...