It can withstand a tornado and is so massive it could house Paris’ famed Notre-Dame Cathedral. A giant shield designed to protect the nuclear reactor damaged 30 years ago at Chernobyl has reached its ...

A team of risk experts who have carried out the biggest-ever analysis of nuclear accidents warn that the next disaster on the scale of Chernobyl or Fukushima may happen much sooner than the public ...

When the words “energy” and “Chernobyl” appear together in a sentence, the topic is typically the 1986 nuclear energy disaster that left the Ukrainian city in shambles. Today, the abandoned site of ...

in 2016.. I stepped inside one of the most haunting places on Earth — Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Eight years ago, I filmed a full exploration across multiple videos inside the abandoned city of Pripyat ...

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 4 reactor. The blast discharged 400 times the radioactivity released by the Hiroshima bomb ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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On Tuesday, officials from all over the world gathered about a football field away from the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. They were there to celebrate the final placement of a massive, high-tech ...