Prompt radiation is emitted within moments of a nuclear detonation. Radioactive particles deposited in soil, water and ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Italy's return to nuclear power reflects a broader shift. Here's why countries are reconsidering atomic energy after ...

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 ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The strike hit the concrete shelter that covers ...

From Chernobyl and Fukushima to abandoned uranium mines and nuclear test sites, this journey measures some of the most ...

The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up ...