On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

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

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has told AFP. Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly ...

A vital power line is back up and running at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), the facility that has been at the center of pervasive concerns over nuclear safety in Ukraine throughout the ...