Before Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was Windscale — the nuclear disaster Britain tried to erase from history. In 1957, a ...

The brand new four-part series Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown premieres on CNN Sunday, March 1 at 9/8c. Across the span of four episodes, the new CNN original series will examine the world’s worst ...

As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

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

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