Amid rising global conflicts and concerns about nuclear weapons, some of the world's most radioactive locations pose severe health risks due to human actions like nuclear tests, power generation, and ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to ...

An abandoned fairground still stands in Pripyat, Ukraine. The disaster began at Chernobyl reactor 4 when a power surge occurred during a systems test, causing a series of steam explosions and a ...

Looking at the circumstances which led to the development and subsequent unsafe usage of the Chernobyl #4 reactor can teach us a lot about disaster prevention. It’s a story of the essential role ...

Europe is still reeling from the radioactive legacy of Chernobyl, a 1986 nuclear disaster that resulted in widespread contamination in Belarus, Ukraine, and Western Russia. More than 30 years ...