Explore the heart of the Chernobyl disaster through high-detail 3D animations that expose why the Soviet reactor was vulnerable to one of history’s worst nuclear catastrophes. Witness a side-by ...

Fukushima is a Level 7 accident – the same rating given the Chernobyl fire and explosion 25 years ago. Still, Chernobyl remains the worst nuclear accident in history.

Unlike Chernobyl, the explosions at Fukushima have come from the containment dome - not the radioactive core. "The containment vessel only had a little bit of radioactivity in it," Dallas said.

The new HBO series "Chernobyl" dramatizes the accident and horrific aftermath of a nuclear meltdown that rocked the Ukraine in 1986. Twenty-five years later, another nuclear catastrophe would ...

The 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl Power Complex in the Ukraine, recently dramatized in the HBO series "Chernobyl," was followed 25 years later by the 2011 disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ...

Though Fukushima and Chernobyl are both level 7 nuclear accidents, the consequences in Japan to date are much less severe. In part, that's because far more radiation was released at Chernobyl.

The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is strikingly similar to the terrible events at the Soviet Chernobyl plant which exploded and burned, releasing massive amounts of ...

Just as they’ve done around the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan today, authorities set up an exclusion zone, to contain the uncontainable, and evacuated 100,000 people, as well as 135,000 cows.

With the passage of time, Chernobyl has become well-explored territory. Guides take you through the nearest town, Pripyat, and they know exactly where to go — and more importantly — where not to.

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

Just Like Chernobyl, Wildlife Is Thriving at Fukushima Almost a Decade After Nuclear Disaster. Published Jan 07, 2020 at 12:45 PM EST Updated Jan 08, 2020 at 6:51 AM EST. By Rosie McCall .