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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to ...

The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...

(WJW) – Several unusual-colored dogs have been seen roaming the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened almost 40 years ago. The Dogs of Chernobyl, a project affiliated with the Clean ...

The catastrophe that unfolded at Chernobyl in 1986 was supposed to be entombed behind layers of concrete and steel, a disaster frozen in time rather than a recurring threat. Now Ukrainian officials ...

Preparatory work has begun for installing solar panels which the operators of the Chernobyl plant site say will help meet ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...