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Chernobyl

This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine

A Ukrainian nuclear plant survived Russian attack. But it raises security concerns over reactors in war zones, analyst says.

Nuclear

Atomic safety experts say that a war fought amid nuclear reactors represents an unprecedented and highly dangerous situation. Henry Sokolski, the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, talked with The World’s Carol Hills about the risks.

chernobyl in ukraine

Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident

Environment
A man in shorts and a baseball hat stands next to construction workers covered in soot.

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ revisits nuclear catastrophe with a nod to climate change

Media
and old woman in a field

Despite the risks, holdouts refuse to abandon Ukraine’s radiation hotspots

Environment
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano takes part in a traditional bread and salt ceremony during a visit to the Belarusian nuclear power plant

Lithuania worries that a Russia-funded nuclear reactor in Belarus is part of a push for more power

Conflict
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Chernobyl new dome

Ukraine moves giant new safety dome over Chernobyl

Environment

The $2.2-billion structure has been edged into place over an existing crumbling dome that the Soviets built in haste when disaster struck three decades ago.

Moose in the Exclusion Zone

Wildlife in Chernobyl is thriving 30 years after the nuclear accident

Environment

In the absence of a human population, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become a de facto nature reserve.

A view of the damaged reactor at Chernobyl, April 2016

Chernobyl and ‘the summer without children’

Environment

On April 26, 1986, the world suffered its worst peacetime nuclear disaster, when the Soviet reactor at Chernobyl went into meltdown. One survivor talks about how it affected her and her family.

What kind of 2014 is in store for us?

Global Scan

2013 was a mixed bag for the world. Syria’s chemical weapons are on the road to being neutralized, but dictator Bashar al-Assad remains in power. Fewer people around the world are going hungry, but many are now overweight or obese. And Japan is still a long way from solving the problems stemming from the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima. All those stories and more in today’s Global Scan.

Two years later, Fukushima still reeling from tsunami’s effects

Environment

As Japanese officials continue to struggle to contain radioactive waste from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima two years ago, the situation is not getting any easier. Though they’ve managed to store millions of gallons of waste-contaminated water, the area remains vulnerable to another natural disaster.

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