Within three months of the Chernobyl disaster, more than 30 people died of acute radiation sickness. Today, scientists estimate that tens, perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of people were ...

Researchers studied the songbirds of Chernobyl and uncovered the surprising impact that radiation has had on their diets and gut microbiomes. Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began ... Over the next few weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalised with acute radiation sickness, and 28 of the firemen and emergency clean ...

A fungus at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has adapted to 'feed' on levels of radiation that would be lethal to ...

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 ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant ... The Kremlin denied it was responsible. Radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv ...