Hernobyl Disaster News Today

On the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the international community to pressure Russia to return control of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to Ukraine.

Mutant wolves exposed to the Chernobyl disaster showed resilience to cancer. Continue reading to learn more.

The poor little truck — and its crew — ended up in the worst place possible when the nuclear power plant blew.

The Railway Men director Shiv Rawail talks about how he and his team brought the Bhopal gas tragedy on screen with utmost sensitivity and addresses comparisons with Chernobyl.

A specific isotope of cesium has been linked to nuclear weapons, and not Chernobyl—the previous suspected cause.

Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive material across the globe. That material can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of wild boars roaming the forests of southern Germany.

You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986.

This new research is a “cautionary tale” about nuclear weapons testing.

A tsunami struck the Japanese plant in 2011, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Ukraines attacks on Russias nuclear power plants must be of concern to European politicians and the international community in general because of the potentially disastrous consequences, famous nuclear expert Dr. Christopher Busby told Sputnik.