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

Key Points and Summary – Russia appears to be preparing to test its nuclear-powered “Skyfall” cruise missile just days before ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Chernobyl's stray dogs are 'genetically distinct' 40 years after the massive nuclear radiation leak, scientists find By Morgan McFall-Johnsen and Isobel van Hagen ...

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.

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.