The new series from HBO about the bleak events of Chernobyl premiered last night with unsettling results. The show depicts the unfortunate events of 1986 in the town of Pripyat where the No. 4 nuclear ...

As HBO's Chernobyl makes very clear in its retelling of the massive nuclear disaster, it's clear that there are many people and systems to blame for how the even occurred and the immediate response.

As anyone who has watched HBO's Chernobyl miniseries will know by now, the question of who to blame for the 1986 nuclear accident is a murky one. Monday night marks the final installment of the ...

The 1986 Chernobyl crisis was undoubtedly one of the worst nuclear disasters of all time. A reactor explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's fourth unit set off a fire and spewed radioactive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “Chernobyl” Episode 5, “Vichnaya Pamyat.”] Even though it’s a documented event ...

'Chernobyl' creator and writer Craig Mazin discusses depicting the 1986 nuclear disaster, the HBO miniseries' slow-burn success and how the story resonates with climate change denialism. By Emma ...

The first episode of HBO’s five-part miniseries “Chernobyl” led me to commit a classic internet mistake: seeking out medical advice from Google. After watching an hour of nuclear technicians and ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

LONDON (AP) — Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, whose roles ranged from a hapless suburban patriarch in sitcom “Friday Night Dinner” to a Soviet engineer who helps cause a nuclear disaster in ...

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, British actor Paul Ritter. Ritter, who appeared in the Harry Potter franchise and played a key figure behind nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, has died aged 54.