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

Chernobyl's Number Four reactor caught fire and exploded in April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud of dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other parts of Europe in the world's worst civil nuclear ...

On 26 April 1986, at 1:23 in the morning, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, just three ...

By Devin Watkins As he prayed the Regina Caeli in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for the responsible use ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown ...

Slavutych was built as a Soviet paradise for refugees from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster but now it is being born again as a ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

In May 2025, President Donald Trump issued four executive orders aimed at expanding the nuclear power industry. Trump called ...

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...