The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...

We’re looking at the Chernobyl liquidators - the miners, pilots, divers, engineers, and young conscripts who became the human ...

KIEV, Ukraine — Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, farmers and volunteers tasked with taking part in the Chernobyl cleanup operation after the ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

In Ukraine, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant are honored - people who were the first to protect the country and the world from ...

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KIEV, Ukraine -- As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in ...

Two workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station have been hospitalized as radiation-contaminated water seeped into their boots while laying power cables. They join 15 who've ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – Efforts to mitigate the consequences of the Chernobyl NPP accident is enormous efforts carried out by our state, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Vladimir ...