31 May 2023
Ukraine and Russia must agree to maintain safety at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to prevent a dangerous radiation leak, says the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
8 August 2022
A scientist at the Chernobyl nuclear plant says that Russian troops occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant are risking its safety, with reports of shelling and mining of the site and explosives in the reactor building
22 April 2022
Researchers hoping to identify bacteria capable of consuming radioactive waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fear their work has been destroyed by Russian troops
8 April 2022
High radiation levels seen as Russian forces captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in February were put down to contaminated topsoil being disturbed, but experts now believe they could have been due to interference with wireless sensors
29 March 2022
Scientists at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant say that radioactive material was stolen by looters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
11 May 2021
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
12 June 2019
Our regular column sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros
23 April 1987
In casting through the British newspapers from the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, the world's most disastrous nuclear accident, disarray was clear, but not all of it was in the Soviet Union
