The Emmy-winning writer-director also shares the lessons he learned from 'Chernobyl' and whether he'll ever return to comedy.

At 1:23am on Saturday, April 26th, 1986, a failed experiment blew the 500-ton safety cap off of the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant's Reactor Number 4. According to Sasha Yuvchenko, a member ...

In one of the more ironic disasters of all time, the unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine failed during an emergency shutdown safety test in 1986, belching nuclear waste and ...

Bow wow! Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast ...

The Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, "was fully disconnected from the power grid," Ukraine 's national energy operator Ukrenergo said Wednesday in a ...

During the Chernobyl period, I was a Moscow university subject, like everyone else, to heavy anti-American indoctrination. We dismissed those early news reports as Western disinformation.

The Chernobyl reactor was a Soviet construction of unique design. It is commonly known as an RBMK-1000, a Russian acronym that stands for Reaktor Bolshoi Moshchnosty Kanalny — a Reactor of Large ...

Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded and burned April 26, 1986. The complex construction effort to secure the molten reactor's core and 200 tons of highly ...

Background Chernobyl Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 26 April 1986 - A routine 20-second shut down of the system seemed to be another test of the electrical equipment.

Chernobyl has won acclaim in recreating the horrors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, though it seems there were some things that were too extreme to put on screen. Among the disturbing images was a ...

Ukraine's defense ministry cited two reasons for the Russian exit: military losses and radiation exposure. They likely disturbed polluted soil in the Chernobyl zone's contaminated Red Forest.