Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s been three and a half decades since the No. 4 reactor at ...

Russian artillery shells started a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine early Friday, raising fears of catastrophic radioactive disasters from intense fighting near nuclear sites.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Early on the morning of April 26, 1986, administrators of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant (better known as Chernobyl) in Pripyat – a small city in northern Ukraine – decide to force ...

Two seminal events in 1986 had global repercussions on engineering standards and the proper application of engineering judgment. The first–the space shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28–had an ...

Valery Legasov played by Jared Harris is up against a corrupt system that has no intention of letting the world know their secrets in Chernobyl. Pic credit: HBO If you are of a certain age, you might ...

Cosmic horror is extremely hard to communicate in visual mediums. The sense that there is something unknowable, ancient, and all-powerful right below the shell of our world can be evoked through the ...

HBO's eerie, five-part special on the Chernobyl disaster wraps up Monday night. With Arizona being home to the largest nuclear plant in the U.S., there are some important differences worth noting ...

HBO's Chernobyl is not the story of any one person, but the story of many people whose lives were irreparably changed because of their proximity to the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...