Both are ambitious goals, given that American firms have long struggled to build reactors on time and on budget, and because ...

The main risk inside the storage facility is the chemical toxicity of uranium hexafluoride gas and fluoride compounds ...

Professor Jim Smith, from the University of Portsmouth, said: "This research is important for communities affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Since 1986 there has been a lot of misinformation about ...

Donald Trump has floated the idea of taking control of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, in a phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The conversation on Wednesday was described as ...

Chernobyl’s Reactor Four exploded during a safety test on April 26, 1986, leaking radiation that permeated the atmosphere to several parts of the USSR and western Europe.

A radiation shelter on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site was damaged by Russian drones, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian government says a fire broke out after a Russian drone ...

A shelter above the sarcophagus covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, Saturday, Apr. 16, 2022. BREAKING: Supreme Court says govt. does not need to return ...

Russia’s military used a drone with a high-explosive warhead to hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging the protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks ...

The radiation shield is designed to prevent further radioactive material leaking out over the next century. It measures 275m (900ft) wide and 108m (354ft) tall and cost $1.6bn (£1.3bn) to construct.

These sequenced genomes were then compared to the sequenced genomes of five specimens of O. tipulae from elsewhere in the world – the Philippines, Germany, the United States, Mauritius, and Australia.

A lake was so radioactive that it could kill people in less than an hour. Located in Russia, Lake Karachay ended up being used as a dumping ground for radioactive waste. Before being infilled, the ...