An expert Teesside engineer will feature in a new documentary telly series examining some of the world's biggest industrial disasters and the investigations into them. Fiona Macleod, from Stockton, ...

An engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has revealed how he witnessed a major accident four years before the disaster in 1986. Nikolai Steinberg was among the Ukrainian engineers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April 26, 1986. The disaster at Chernobyl, located about 65 miles from Kiev in the former Soviet Union, is the worst nuclear power ...

Assume Nothing: The Radiation Holiday is an eight-part podcast series which will be available on BBC Sounds from Saturday 4 ...

A substance has been made in a laboratory which mimics an extremely dangerous material created during the nuclear reactor disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima. The material is intentionally similar to ...

Survivors of the world's worst nuclear disaster have said they fear history may repeat itself at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko, a native of the Chernobyl region, ...

Viktor Bryukhanov, the engineer who oversaw the construction and operation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the site of an explosion in 1986 that ranks among the worst accidents of the ...

An engineer who fled from Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant under the anonymised name of Olga fears the situation could be much worse than the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 when an estimated 4,000 ...

Take a look inside radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4 On April 26, 1986, the world was unaware that the worst nuclear disaster humanity had ever seen was unfolding in a corner of Russia.

Instruments monitoring Chernobyl's entombed carcass have detected a gradual increase in neutrons streaming from the plant - a sign of nuclear fission reactions - over the past five years. Scientists ...