On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...

On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to ...

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where researchers are fighting to protect the area and ensure it remains safe amid the co ...

EXCLUSIVE: CNN and Nat Geo are teaming up for their latest international series, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown. The CNN Original four-part series is a co-production with National Geographic ...

What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?