The great nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima prompted a Swiss referendum that terminated nuclear power plants. People are rightly questioning their safety. The Fukushima incident sparked the ...

Two workers involved in the demolition of a housing estate dubbed Scotland's 'Chernobyl' are in hospital following an incident. The male employees were injured due to "falling masonry" at the ...

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Two workers were taken to hospital after being injured during the demolition of an abandoned scheme dubbed ‘Scotland’s Chernobyl’. Work got underway last month to demolish the 430-flat Clune ...

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident ...

While the timing of the UFU’s very serious claims clearly isn’t intended to help the opposition, the timing of the election campaign and its awkward overlap with the 39 th anniversary of the world’s ...

One of the worst nuclear disasters in history took place on April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl, USSR where the number four reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a late-night test. If ...

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has become a real national disaster for Belarus and has affected almost every aspect of life: a quarter of the country’s territory was exposed to ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield ...

Every year on April 26, the world pauses to commemorate International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, honouring the victims of one of the gravest nuclear catastrophes in human history.