When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

Ukraine has claimed that Russia launched an overnight drone attack on the Chernobyl site, that has 'significantly' damaged the radiation shelter in place to protect any nuclear leaks. However ...

In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement. Video by Adrian Hartrick and Dominika Ozynska Follow BBC ...

For people of a certain age, the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, after years of heightened fears of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, was the stuff of nightmares.

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl ... The video shows a bit of the history of Soviet-era control computers. The reactor’s V-30M computer descended from some of these earlier computers.

PITTSBURGH--The Soviet official responsible for the decontamination of the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant has acknowledged for the first time that his country was forced to abandon mechanical ...

One of the dumber responses to HBO’s just-completed Chernobyl miniseries — discussed by Kyle Smith on the homepage today – is that somehow it’s unfairly picking on the Soviet Union.

Read more: What HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets right (and wrong ... and medicine," he told Variety's "TV Take" podcast. "The Soviet Union had quite a large percentage of female doctors." ...

wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> As the half-century anniversary of the landing approaches, the Soviet Union is a thing of the past and Chernobyl is a radioactive ghost town, ever since the ...

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining ...