The HBO miniseries about the 1986 crisis aired its finale Monday WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from HBO’s Chernobyl. The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb ...

Denis Fougerouse is affiliated with the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and The Institute for Geoscience Research at Curtin University. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

The meltdown of one of the four reactors of the massive nuclear power plant near the town of Chernobyl in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was the result of badly flawed reactor design, sloppy ...

A children's seesaw stands among former apartment buildings in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s to house the workers and families of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, now stands ...

Last night was the finale of HBO and Sky’s five part miniseries Chernobyl, which seems destined not only to sweep certain categories of the Emmys later on this year, but it seems clear the show has ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentary on nuclear safety published on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, produced in a collaboration between the Project ...

Sonja Schmid is associate professor for science, technology and society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at Falls Church. She is the author of Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl ...

A husband died in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, and his wife in a Russian drone attack—separated by 39 years. The tragic story of a couple swept up in two of Ukraine’s modern-era ...