Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...

Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

Image #: 18518185 TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 5, 2012, shows (from front L) No. 4, No. 3, No. 2 and No. 1 reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on ...

Discover 25 tiny scientific mistakes that became massive disasters. Explore how small errors in space and engineering led to ...

Constellation Energy will soon have permission to reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor facility. It is the site of America’s biggest nuclear disaster, which happened in 1979. That changed the ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...

Google is betting that nuclear power can keep its fast‑growing AI empire running without blowing its climate targets, even as critics warn about accident risks and radioactive waste. The company is ...