Background radiation levels in the Chernobyl area vary widely by location. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of things in a science fiction film – green glowing men, deformed animals. In ...

MANDATORY CREDIT. REFILE - CORRECTING DATE The specter of Chernobyl contamination was embodied this week by the action of Russian soldiers who invaded that area of northern Ukraine. A convoy of ...

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov added that the radiation level in the area of the nuclear power ... control the territory around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

“Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is open for the ... which is being planned for the area of the well-known nuclear desaster, according to a press release from the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy.

Sixty-two-year-old Sergii Mirnyi will never forget the year 1986, when he was sent to help deal with the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl that was threatening to poison the continent. Mirnyi was a ...

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. The area of forest fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has exceeded 2,600 hectares, the Ministry of Environmental ...