A nuclear engineer reacts to a minute by minute breakdown of the Chernobyl control room disaster, separating fact from fiction while explaining the critical decisions, reactor behavior, and events ...

The control room of Chernobyl reactor number four has officially been opened to the public. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky made the official announcement in July this year after signing a decree ...

The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world’s worst ever nuclear power plant incident – Copyright AFP Glody MURHABAZI Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine ...

A Russian drone strike damaged Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement, the protective structure built to contain radioactive remains from the 1986 disaster. While no immediate radiation spike was detected, ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...