Reason magazine’s Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is inherently dangerous, but that totalitarian governments can't safely manage ...

(via Kyle Hill) On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to contain and eventually decommission the exploded Reactor 4 at ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Chernobyl’s cooling ponds were vast, human-made lakes continuously maintained 7 metres above the level of the Pripyat river by pumps. Entire villages predating the plant were submerged by the ponds' ...