In October 1986, disaster unfolded as Ronald Reagan ... the Soviets constructed a secret facility known as Mayak to produce nuclear bombs. Even before the event, the operations at the site ignored ...

The Windscale fire was not actually the only nuclear accident of 1957. Less than two weeks earlier, an explosion at the nuclear fuel processing plant in Mayak, in the Soviet Union, caused radioactive ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers ...

The massive steel dome was designed to protect and confine radioactive remains of a reactor that was the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.

People in Ukraine gathered on Saturday to remember those who died in the Chornobyl power plant accident, marking 39 years of the nuclear disaster. The accident that occurred on April 26 ...

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, when the Tōhoku earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Great Sendai ...

There were no outward signs that Mr. Polishchuck’s building was being used by Ukraine’s military. It was a low-slung, crowded ...

The confinement over the fourth nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has not been functioning properly as a ...

Just one hour at the shore of Lake Karachay would be enough to kill. The radioactive lake, located in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia, was a dumping ground for nuclear waste from the ...

The explosion occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States, but there was no immediate ...