In the HBO and Sky drama, just moments after the Chernobyl explosion, a blue-white beam of light shot up into the sky from the exposed reactor core. In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster ...

Join us as we uncover the full story of Chernobyl, a cautionary tale etched into history. Witness the full story of Chernobyl, one of history’s most devastating nuclear disasters. This video ...

Chernobyl, located in present day Ukraine, faced one of the biggest and widely known nuclear disasters in 1986.

Around 30 people died from the immediate blast trauma of the reactor explosion and, while United Nations estimates that only ...

Looking at the circumstances which led to the development and subsequent unsafe usage of the Chernobyl #4 reactor can teach ... In every light water reactor (LWR) design that uses plain H 2 ...

A few months after reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went up in toxic flames in 1986, it was encased in a concrete and steel "sarcophagus" to contain the radioactive material inside.

An abandoned fairground still stands in Pripyat, Ukraine. The disaster began at Chernobyl reactor 4 when a power surge occurred during a systems test, causing a series of steam explosions and a ...

AP The Chernobyl plant is the site of the world’s first level 7 nuclear energy accidents, when Reactor 4 suffered a power surge resulting in steam explosions and a meltdown on April 26 ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated on Monday, June 10 at 4:45 p.m. E.D.T. In the new HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Russian ... from the standard light-water reactor, and many of them have safety ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian drone slammed into the shell covering the remains of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4 — the same one that exploded on April 26, 1986 ...