All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. From a 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to a grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who ...

While there is no immediate danger from Chernobyl, Renaud-Basso said the damage needs to be fixed before 2030. Without ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. With Chernobyl's nuclear radiation raining down, Communist party officials dithered, delayed and hid the ...

Funds for repairing the massive structure covering the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Reactor No. 4 have not yet been fully ...

A giant steel structure built to contain what remains of Chernobyl's Reactor 4 needs to be fixed.

The incident in 1986 remains the world’s worst-ever nuclear accident Radioactive fallout covered much of Europe in the spring of 1986 following the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever recorded.

CU Boulder political scientist Sarah Wilson Sokhey says the underlying lesson of the nuclear catastrophe is that the risk has not gone away—and that such disasters don’t recognize national borders ...

Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) in Soviet Ukraine spiraled into one of the most recognizable disasters of ...