Background radiation levels in the Chernobyl area vary widely by location. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of things in a science fiction film – green glowing men, deformed animals.

KIEV, April 7. /TASS/. The wildfire area near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has more than tripled to 35 hectares, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported Tuesday. Earlier in the ...

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 ...

These attacks have extended to nuclear sites. In February, a Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear ...

A major fire broke out in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl on June 29 when dry grass caught fire, it spread to the area of some 130 hectares KIEV, August 11. /TASS/. Rescuers have been unable ...

Sixty-two-year-old Sergii Mirnyi will never forget the year 1986, when he was sent to help deal with the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl that was threatening to poison the continent. Mirnyi was a ...

Trenches dug by the Russian military are seen in an area with high levels of radiation called the Red Forest, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...