Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

Experts fear people who eat fish from waters contaminated by a radioactive pollutant discharged by nuclear plants and factories are at a greater risk of developing cancer than was previously thought.

This also triggered a number of explosions at the plant, leaking radioactive material into ... the same classification as the Chernobyl disaster. "The Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewer for ...

According to earlier reports, a fire measuring 20 hectares in area was spotted in the zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/. Radioactive substances, should they get ...

A satellite image with overlaid graphics shows military vehicles alongside Chernobyl Nuclear Power ... The military heavy vehicles raised a radioactive dust that could not only contaminate them ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

Charmingly named “Chernobyl Dice”, this little gadget ... for which [Nathan] chose to use six slightly radioactive uranium glass marbles. Those feature prominently in the front panel of ...

Chernobyl was famously the site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, with radioactive fallout spewing over a large part of Europe. Its reactors are now encased in a huge protective ...

Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst civil nuclear catastrophe when one of its four reactors exploded in 1986. That reactor is now enclosed by a shelter to contain the lingering radiation.