In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

Damage inflicted by a drone strike on the protective structure surrounding a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant has left it unable to perform its core safety role, Reuters reported, ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactor, a strange survivor has quietly rewritten the rules of life in extreme environments. A jet-black fungus that appears to feed on radiation is now at the ...