Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the core assemblies of the RBMK reactors at the former Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant—the ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

A Russian drone strike on Chernobyl has hit a building at the central storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the ...

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded ...

26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no ...