THE 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster left behind a legacy of devastation, with radiation levels so extreme that the area was ...

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

Today marks 35 years since the devastating accident at Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and solemn ceremonies were held at several locations in Ukraine to commemorate those ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. On the morning of Saturday, 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 of the ...

Alexander Sich, nuclear engineer and associate professor of physics at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, was the first Westerner permitted to live and work within the exclusion zone to ...

Two seminal events in 1986 had global repercussions on engineering standards and the proper application of engineering judgment. The first–the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28–had an ...

Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from “acute radiation sickness” and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports ...