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 steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

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 ...

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.

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

A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive ... the incident saw a rise in cancer rates in the surrounding population. The radiation shield is designed to prevent ...

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ ... The disaster also caused thyroid cancer in many people, especially children and adolescents. What's happening now? The area, which still remains ...

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 ...