The world has learned many lessons from the Chernobyl disaster, a devastating nuclear power plant accident that recently rejoined our cultural conversation thanks to a new series on HBO. Though many ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

A new theory on the Chernobyl disaster could shed fresh light on the world’s worst nuclear accident. In an article published in the journal Nuclear Technology, scientists argue that the first of two ...

Holtec International has announced that the second double-walled canister had been loaded with RBMK reactor used nuclear fuel into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site’s Interim Storage Facility in ...

I was at my desk in the Energy Daily newsroom on April 26, 1986 when someone handed me a bulletin ripped from one of the wire service machines in the National Press Club building in Washington, where ...

Chernobyl is located north of Kiev, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. The nuclear plant was close to the newly built city of Pripyat, the small town of Chornobyl and was surrounded primarily by ...

A fuel channel, together with a control and protection system channel, have been removed from the reactor of unit 1 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The work was carried out as part of ...

The meltdown that happened in Chernobyl couldn’t happen in Beaver County. The now-decommissioned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station had little in common, structurally speaking, with the existing ...

HBO's eerie, five-part special on the Chernobyl disaster wraps up Monday night. With Arizona being home to the largest nuclear plant in the U.S., there are some important differences worth noting ...

Once seen as a shining example of the future of the Soviet Union, the town of Pirpyat in Ukraine was abandoned after the accident at the nuclear power plant it was built to serve. Photo taken on Feb.