A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

open image in gallery Photograph shows a dog in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (AFP via Getty) Scientists have been studying dog populations near the nuclear ...

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...

During the immediate aftermath of the accident at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power in April 1986, a total of 53,000 people were evacuated from the nearby city of Pripyat to various villages in ...

Among the things scientists have been looking at recently are the genetic differences of dogs living near in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) near Pripyat in Ukraine, and a new study has been ...

Chernobyl’s reactor meltdown remains history’s worst nuclear disaster ... and a roughly 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone still exists around the facility that includes the abandoned town of Pripyat.