Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

Experts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Norway have confirmed that after a drone attack, the ...

Within three months of the Chernobyl disaster, more than 30 people died ... and Naen — carried more contamination than areas near the Chernobyl power plant. Though the islands are mostly ...

Continue reading The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 was a nuclear meltdown ... humans were evacuated from Chernobyl and the surrounding areas to avoid the extreme levels of radiation.

Chernobyl-affected regions are gradually returning to the path of sustainable development and increasing their contribution to the economy, First Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Kartun said.

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans. In February a Russian drone put a hole in it.

Sixty-two-year-old Sergii Mirnyi will never forget the year 1986, when he was sent to help deal with the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl that was threatening to poison the continent. Mirnyi was a ...

Atomfall is the latest release from Oxford-based Rebellion, best known for its long-running Sniper Elite series. CEO Jason ...

The 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted AP journalists in Eastern Europe ... They took a Geiger counter to the banks to show how toxic the area is today. Karmanau had long ...

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion ... evacuated from the area in 1986, and around 220,000 people were relocated from Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. The disaster also caused thyroid ...