In 1961, K-19, the Soviet Union’s first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, suffered a catastrophic reactor cooling failure during its first patrol in the North Atlantic. With no backup system, no ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On October 24, 1960, a Soviet R-16 ICBM exploded on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan. The explosion occurred when the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. A Ukrainian soldier taking ...