including to 9,000 who reside in polluted areas or have left them in the wake of the disaster. The meltdown at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant occurred in the small hours ...

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 ...

returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 be made safe ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl's nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world's worst ...

In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster ... before on a reactor fire, if it had exploded, Cumberland would have been finished. 'Blown to smithereens. It would have been like Chernobyl.' ...

Stray dogs living near the Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster site are evolvin and ... with a 30-mile radius around the reactor designated as the "Exclusion Zone." Within this zone, 187 small ...

A population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl. This nuclear disaster on April 26 ... occurred when design errors in the reactor coupled with human mistakes in the ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure ... giant protective shield for a damaged reactor at Chernobyl that would protect the world ...

The disaster at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant occurred in the small hours of April 26, 1986, contaminating more than 200,000 square kilometers of land, first and ...