Russia could spark a huge crisis if it strikes a nuclear plant.

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to the popular Chernobyl claim that pressing the AZ-5 button could have prevented the disaster.

The demolition and subsequent reconstruction of a temporary storage facility for low-level radioactive waste has been ...

Craig Mazin created Chernobyl, the harrowing account of the catastrophic explosion of the titular Russian nuclear plant in ...

Decades-old shipwrecks, industrial accidents, and other disasters still sell books and command eyeballs. The author of the ...

As 2026 approached, social media remembered Baba Vanga (Grandma Vanga), Vangeliya Pandeva Dimitrova (1911–1996), the late ...

A nuclear radiation emergency has not taken place in the UK since 1957 but the UK has contingency plans for if it does happen ...

While no longer equipped for nuclear, biological, and chemical recce, a tiny force of Mi-24RKhR helicopters still fights for ...

AJ Working Details is back. This time it covers 20 projects selected from the past 10 years of AJ Specification, and split ...

Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the ...

An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts say that the chances are ...