Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety test spiralled into catastrophe.

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside.

April 26 will mark 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, still recognised today as history's most devastating nuclear ...

A nuclear expert warns the Chornobyl Reactor 4 shelter's New Safe Confinement structure may collapse after recent drone ...

1986年、大惨事の中心にあったチェルノブイリ原子力発電所4号炉。その制御室は依然として放射線量が高いままですが、防護服とヘルメットと手袋を着用したうえであれば、観光客も見学ができるようになったとCNNは報じています。 放射線量4万倍の部屋は ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...

Most stories about Chernobyl circle the same familiar symbols: the Ferris wheel, the empty apartments, the silence hanging over Pripyat. The stronger version of this story lives in real scenes that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to ...

Chernobyl nuclear plant on August 2013. The reactor 4 is shown in center. Tiia Monto/Wikimedia Commons The protective steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, constructed to contain ...

the Elephant’s Foot was only emitting one-tenth of the radiation it once had. (Image: US department of energy) Beneath the ruined reactor lies the hardened mass called the Elephant’s Foot. It is ...

In April 1986, exactly 40 years ago, Tim Eggar was asleep at home when – for the first time in his four years in government – ...