The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), a 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, was abandoned after the disaster, leaving wildlife to flourish in the absence of humans.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world's worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there ...

A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive ... the incident saw a rise in cancer rates in the surrounding population. The radiation shield is designed to prevent ...

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On October 10, 1957, the Windscale nuclear reactor in Cumbria caught fire, marking one of the first nuclear accidents in history. The fire burned for three days, releasing harmful radioactive material ...

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ ... The disaster also caused thyroid cancer in many people, especially children and adolescents. What's happening now? The area, which still remains ...

Cancel anytime. In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damaged sarcophagus that covers the destroyed fourth reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside ...

More than 100 others at Chernobyl were diagnosed with acute radiation ... For example, your odds of getting cancer are higher.

The research of 44 thyroid cancer patients born in counties around ... headline bothered to read that far into the article.) But Chernobyl was on a whole other scale of disaster, for the denial ...