"Another 15 metres [50ft] to the side and there would have been a radiation accident," Hryhoriy Ishchenko, chief of the agency that manages the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, told reporters ...

A fungus has been discovered growing on the Number 4 reactor, feeding off the radiation that preceded the tragic Chernobyl nuclear disaster which led to thousands evacuating ...

As of 21:00 local time on Thursday, background radiation levels around the Chernobyl NPP do not exceed the norm MOSCOW, February 24 /TASS/. Radiation levels measured around Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...

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 ...

That restricted land, known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, now extends 1,000 square ... you'd probably receive a higher dose of radiation from the flight over. But the infamous Reactor 4 ...

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.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says radiation levels have remained ... and the real start of dismantling". The Chernobyl nuclear power plant lies about 130 kilometres north of Ukraine's ...

Then, Karmanau and Minsk photojournalist Sergei Grits visited the Belarussian side of the contaminated zone and showed how ... locals today still living along a radiation-tainted river. They took a ...

KIEV, April 27. /TASS/. Fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant engulfed an area of around 20,000 hectares, Sergei Kalashnik, chief of Ukraine’s state agency for the ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... The Kremlin denied it was responsible. Radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region — site of the world’s worst nuclear accident — have ...