Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, ...

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

Thermal vision drones helping to monitor the blaze showed it smouldering until March 3rd – a full 17 days after the drone ...

In November 2016, a massive metal dome was erected over the remains of the reactor paid for with almost 2.5 billion dollars ...

Between changing risk perceptions and new equipment developed to cope with extreme hazards, these major disasters have had a ...