Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown tells the powerful story of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in four gripping episodes.

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

Data centers consume tons of electricity and fresh water. According to Pew Research data, 4% of the United State's total electricity in 2024 went to data centers. Altogether, they consumed about 183 ...

The “Elephant’s Foot” formed by the Chernobyl disaster. A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Citing cultural problems as the reason for the 2011 Japan nuclear reactor disaster is risky because some of the key problems involving regulation and technical issues could ...

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Following the disaster, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear power stations including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which sits in the coastal ...

(CNN) — Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a ...