The disaster of Chernobyl is one of the worst disasters in nuclear power ever, and also a major and pivotal moment in human ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), a 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, was abandoned after the disaster, leaving wildlife to flourish in the absence of humans.

Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world's worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there ...

“Chernobyl has taken my legs ... I Have 4 Kids, a Beautiful Wife — and Terminal Cancer. I Run Marathons Because I Don't Want to Miss Out on Life (Exclusive) I Thought My 100-Lb.

Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine ... even though it lead to dozens of cases of cancer. Atomfall, a video game released late last month, sets users in an imagined post-apocalyptic version of Cumbria ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

Cancer rates, especially for thyroid cancer ... The confinement structure at Chernobyl that Mr. Schmieman worked on was an engineering and construction feat, designed to protect the damaged ...

Growing up in Ukraine in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Eugene Shenderov was diagnosed with leukemia at an early ...

More than 100 others at Chernobyl were diagnosed with acute radiation ... For example, your odds of getting cancer are higher.

A few years ago, on one of her first visits to Chernobyl, Katherine Raines went to the Red Forest, a radioactive cemetery of pine trees scorched by the nuclear accident in 1986. She was curious to see ...