The year that Bay to Breakers was the world’s largest footrace

For those less athletically gifted, though, the highlight of 1986’s Bay to Breakers was the parade of oddball costumes. As ...
The Conversation

Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let go

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...
The Economist

An explosion still echoing: Chernobyl at 40

We go deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant and the surrounding exclusion zone, recounting the history of the accident on April 26 1986, and speaking with plant workers who were on shift that ...

Chernobyl at 40: As the world bets on nuclear again, has it learned the lessons?

Forty years ago, a reactor taught the world what arrogance and opacity can do to atoms under pressure. Forty years on, the ...

World's biggest asbestos factory dubbed Britain's Chernobyl where kids swim in 'toxic' river

The Turner Brothers Asbestos factory in Rochdale closed more than 20 years ago - but locals have shared their fears that kids ...
Opinion

Adi Roche: My nightmare is that the next Chernobyl event occurs at Chernobyl itself

There may be a view that the nuclear disaster is an event from long ago and no longer poses a threat, but the reality is very different ...
The Economist

Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

Guy Ritchie Admits He's "Amazed" by the Fate of 'Sherlock Holmes 3' [Exclusive]

Guy Ritchie gives an update on Sherlock Holmes 3 and agrees that he is disappointed the Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law sequel ...

How school pupils 'beat the experts' in measuring Chernobyl fallout

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

RCP Podcast: Trump's Vengeance on Indiana GOP, Would Fetterman Ever Switch Parties? The Real Problem at Chernobyl Was Communism

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan break down President Trump's effort to ...

Missiles fired at Chernobyl nuclear plant risk 'major accident': Live

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky asks for Putin summit to kickstart peace talks as EU finally approves major €90b loan - The US mediated direct talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year wi ...