I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...

For 40 years scientists have been fascinated by the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Professor Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth is one of those ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

The Noto Peninsula earthquake on Jan. 1, 2024, revealed flaws in specialized indoor shelters designed to protect evacuees from radiation leaks in nuclear power plant disasters.

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...

PIKETON, Ohio (WKRC) - The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), a massive Cold War-era complex near Piketon, Ohio, once played a critical role in America: enriching uranium for the country’s ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has restarted unit 6 of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture. The company aims to return the reactor to commercial operation on 18 ...