all of Europe, and the world.’ A major nuclear incident at the plant could put several European nations at grave risk, not just Ukraine. A model map shows how the continent could be affected by ...

“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl ... of Zaporizhia, Europe’s biggest nuclear ...

Chernobyl’s No. 4 nuclear reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation clouds across Europe. The plant, located in northern Ukraine some 12 miles from the country’s border with ...

This country in central Asia is often assumed to be small because of its location on a map, but is actually bigger than most ...

Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear ... across much of Europe, with the area ...

Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus, then and now, beside the backdrop of the TV portrayal of the disaster Hours after the world's worst nuclear accident, engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control ...

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the “Red Forest”, kicking ...

Radioactive material, including cancer-causing iodine-131, was nevertheless spewed across the UK and Europe. Until the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Windscale fire was one of the worst ...

The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

All the latest updates on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat in Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, the plant's No. 4 reactor exploded in a devastating accident.

The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency ...