The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

Russian artillery shells started a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine early Friday, raising fears of catastrophic radioactive disasters from intense fighting near nuclear sites.

Greenpeace is investigating the radiation levels at Chernobyl following the Russian occupation of the area. Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—the site of one of the worst nuclear ...

Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from “acute radiation sickness” and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports ...

On Friday, Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe’s largest nuclear facility, the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (also Zaporizhzhia or Zaporizʹka or Saporischschja), after their shelling set the ...

There have been three major accidents at commercial nuclear reactors – Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011). Let’s take a look at each of these accidents to see what ...

Alexander Sich, nuclear engineer and associate professor of physics at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, was the first Westerner permitted to live and work within the exclusion zone to ...

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has asked for international donors to help repair the damage left after Russian forces' control of the Chernobyl area earlier this year. Chernobyl ...