When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

Chernobyl was the worst manmade disaster in history that still has lingering effects today. Russia is trying to get its hands on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, capturing Chernobyl, which is ...

Chernobyl was back in the news recentlyas the decrepit nuclear plant changed hands during Russia's invasionof Ukraine and power was briefly cut. The unstable situation raised fears that pools of water ...

The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the surroundings ...

The Russian military’s capture of the Chernobyl nuclear facility in northern Ukraine last week led to heightened levels of both radioactivity and confusion. Since the infamous 1986 explosion at ...