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Chernobyl

Technology

Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber

Subreactor room 305/2, which has been inaccessible since the Chernobyl meltdown 35 years ago, is emitting neutrons that point to a growing nuclear fission reaction

News

Fukushima 10 years on: Life inside the exclusion zone

Video

Fukushima 10 years on: Life inside the exclusion zone

Video

A strange mix of people keep sneaking into Chernobyl

Humans

A strange mix of people keep sneaking into Chernobyl

Culture

No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia

Physics

No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia

News

crew on the Franklin expedition

Life

Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

Culture

Technology

Working Hypothesis: From Finland’s climate action to a rival Chernobyl

News

Isotopes from weapons and the Chernobyl disaster were found in the Caucasus mountains

Environment

Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents

News

Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor

Earth

Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor

News

Fukushima

Health

Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation's real danger

Features

screen grab of TV report on Fukushima disaster

Health

Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray’s worth of radiation

After the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan was hit by a tsunami in 2011, everyone was exposed to extra radiation, but for most people the dose was small

News

Technology

Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

Features