Feb 24 Officials say Ukraine no longer in control of Chernobyl nuclear site By Associated Press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had announced several hours earlier Thursday that Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch 7:21 Why Chernobyl has suddenly become a hotspot for global tourists By Simon Ostrovsky The site of the world’s worst radiological catastrophe is unexpectedly coming back to life -- due to an American television show. Scores of tourists are visiting Chernobyl, located in northern Ukraine, in response to an HBO miniseries that illuminates the… Continue watching
Jul 30 'Chernobyl' HBO series encourages curious tourists to visit Lithuania By Liudas Dapkus, Associated Press The Baltic country, which served as the filming location for "Chernobyl," has become a destination of so-called atomic tourism since the program aired earlier this year. Continue reading
Jun 30 Why plants don't die from cancer By Stuart Thompson, The Conversation Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?… Continue reading
Jun 05 The face of Belarus' 'invisible people' By Corinne Segal In the decades since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, as the world has reckoned with the unintended effects of nuclear power, a group of people in Belarus has quietly lived out its consequences. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch 9:47 Chernobyl's haunting impact, 30 years later By PBS News Hour Bells tolled 30 times in Kiev on Tuesday, once for each year since the world's worst nuclear disaster. Fallout from Chernobyl haunts Europe: It’s estimated that long-term radiation effects will claim at least 9,000 lives. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien offers… Continue watching
Apr 24 Watch 1:19 Thirty years after Chernobyl disaster, families say children are getting sick By PBS News Hour It will be 30 years on Tuesday since the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster took place in Chernobyl, now part of Ukraine. People who remained in the region continued eating local produce and milk with radiation levels two to… Continue watching
Apr 22 30 years after Chernobyl disaster, engineers race against a decaying reactor By John Wendle, Scientific American A giant arch will enclose the crumbling sarcophagus before radiation leaks get worse, even as plans advance to turn the area into a nature preserve. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch An exclusive look at the world's largest-ever nuclear cleanup By PBS News Hour Five years ago, an epic tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered a triple-reactor nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Ever since then, 7,000 workers have been laboring round-the-clock on a massive, and unprecedented, cleanup effort. Science… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch Return to Fukushima with Miles O'Brien By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching