A nuclear engineer reacts to claims about the Chernobyl reactor and its core inlet behavior, separating myth from real reactor physics. The discussion explains what actually happened and why certain ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. A Ukrainian soldier taking ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

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 ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...