The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.

In 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon in space during a Cold War experiment called Starfish Prime. The blast ...

Roger Ebert has championed plenty of sci-fi films, but he couldn't help but take down these sci-fi movies with some harsh ...

Like looking at a car crash as you drive along a motorway, it's only human to want to see and understand death and the worst ...

Ukrainian drones struck the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in the Kapotnya district of southeastern Moscow for the second time in three days — the largest such facility in the capital region.

A bold ultimatum given to Belarus's leader by Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears to have worked - and the Ukrainian leader also ...

Then things got even worse. The lake started to dry up. In 1968, the wind blew a cloud of radioactive dust away from the lake ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his soldiers in Ukraine were fighting an "aggressive force" backed by all of NATO and described his war goals as "just", as he addressed a scaled ...

A nuclear engineer breaks down common misconceptions about Chernobyl and explains what is really going on based on facts.

Russia hasn’t publicly commented on the alleged attack on the ‌facility, which is around ‌9 miles from the Chernobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Ukraine said Moscow’s forces struck a nuclear fuel storage facility near the mothballed Chernobyl power plant north of Kyiv, ...

A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, accusing Moscow of once again putting nuclear infrastructure at ...