How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns throughout the history of nuclear engineering, but the 1986 explosion at the ...

After the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, the Soviet Union launched an ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them ...

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Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...

Doctors ruled, therefore, that her defects were likely caused by her birth mother having lived close to Chernobyl in the ...

Spare a thought for the iceberg A23a which, after an extraordinary 40-year life voyaging around the southern Atlantic Ocean, is this month expected to die unnoticed close to the island of South ...

The official investigation into the Fukushima disaster called it a “made in Japan” failure by a nuclear industry that ...

Takuma Hashimoto was three years old when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, triggering nuclear ...

Seeking a motive for the assassination of Kenneth Marston, an upright and much-admired English executive, investigators would ...

The main thing I recall about nuclear power from my childhood was receiving mixed messages. From one camp came cartoonish ...