It has been a long time since the Chernobyl reactor accident on April 26, 1986, but the health consequences are still the ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the ...

The outer shell that was struck is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. Soon after ...

Radiation levels at site normal after attack, despite damage to cover built over reactor that exploded in 1986; Kyiv says ...

The footage of the incredibly dangerous 'Elephant's Foot' in the ruins of Chernobyl is really rather scary since you know ...

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster since World War II decimated Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 years ...

A Russian attack drone struck the shelter surrounding the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, Ukrainian ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

Star had a chat with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence-powered large language model called Grok to see what would happen if ...

In addition to the confirmed deaths, other longterm effects suggested by multiple studies include ... Many animals survived even after undergoing radiation-based genetic mutations—notably, a number of ...

Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot is one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Just five minutes near it can be fatal, making it a chilling reminder of nuclear disaster.