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 ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

Recent studies show, in fact, that Chernobyl has become one of the ... Previous research detected an absence of effects of ...

Chernobyl is still very radioactive ... In 2005, it predicted a further 4,000 might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure.

Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine ... it was a herculean and heroic effort that largely managed to contain the radiation which hadn't been immediately released in the accident.

away in Chernobyl city suggest that radiation exposure is having a profound effect. These dogs appear to be experiencing rapid evolutionary changes, with distinct genetic markers that set them ...

Until the Chernobyl accident, the risk of radioactive iodine exposure from a nuclear plant ... the WHO advises that KI be given when the expected radiation dose is as low as 1 cGy (1 rad) and ...

Fortunately, thyroid cancer is a very treatable disease, so few of the 2,000 who have developed it as a result of Chernobyl have died. Professor Dillwyn Williams, from the Strangeways Research ...

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 ...

First, Minsk-based reporter Yuras Karmanau and roving cross-format journalist Mstyslav Chernov told the poignant story of Ukrainian children living near the Chernobyl disaster site who are going ...

Ever wonder what it would be like to experience the disaster that was Chernobyl, personally? What would it be like to be a ...