An expert Teesside engineer will feature in a new documentary telly series examining some of the world's biggest industrial disasters and the investigations into them. Fiona Macleod, from Stockton, ...

An engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has revealed how he witnessed a major accident four years before the disaster in 1986. Nikolai Steinberg was among the Ukrainian engineers ...

A substance has been made in a laboratory which mimics an extremely dangerous material created during the nuclear reactor disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima. The material is intentionally similar to ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April 26, 1986. The disaster at Chernobyl, located about 65 miles from Kiev in the former Soviet Union, is the worst nuclear power ...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe (Credits: Getty) Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling, ...

Survivors of the world's worst nuclear disaster have said they fear history may repeat itself at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko, a native of the Chernobyl region, ...

Viktor Bryukhanov, the engineer who oversaw the construction and operation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the site of an explosion in 1986 that ranks among the worst accidents of the ...

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

Instruments monitoring Chernobyl's entombed carcass have detected a gradual increase in neutrons streaming from the plant - a sign of nuclear fission reactions - over the past five years. Scientists ...

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

Concerns faded after Ukrainian authorities announced that the fire had been extinguished. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling, sparking a fire and raising fears of a ...