Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

A nuclear engineer reacts to stories about U.S. nuclear accidents and explains what really happened, the science behind it, ...

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

After the nuclear disaster in 1986, the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor was evacuated amid fears of radioactive ...

The key appears to be maternal inheritance.

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

A Fukushima mutant pig study shows how escaped domestic pigs rapidly bred with wild boar after the 2011 nuclear disaster.

How a deadly miscalculation turned a Cold War experiment into a radiological disaster.

Nuclear war is one of the world’s greatest existential threats, so why isn’t there more psychological research on it?

What would happen if a nuclear war triggered a climate-altering catastrophe? Researchers have modeled how such a scenario could devastate global corn crops cutting production by as much as 87% due to ...