The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to finishing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor no. 4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

PITTSBURGH--The Soviet official responsible for the decontamination of the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant has acknowledged ... Yuri Semiolenko told a recent conference of robotics scientists ...

On Monday, eight species of fungi gathered from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX rocket. Scientists hope ...

For a series that airs strongly on the side of accuracy, "Chernobyl" took a detour with Khomyuk, who represents multiple Soviet scientists who investigated the cause of the power plant accident.