"The radiation level in this ... The exclusion zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 square kilometers around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ...

Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl ... mile exclusion zone. The blast unleashed a mushroom of smoke, with thousands of potential deaths caused by the radiation and ...

"Another 15 metres [50ft] to the side and there would have been a radiation accident," Hryhoriy Ishchenko, chief of the agency that manages the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, told reporters ...

As of 21:00 local time on Thursday, background radiation levels around the Chernobyl NPP do not exceed the norm MOSCOW, February 24 /TASS/. Radiation levels measured around Ukraine’s Chernobyl ...

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 ...

That restricted land, known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, now extends 1,000 square ... you'd probably receive a higher dose of radiation from the flight over. But the infamous Reactor 4 ...

Then, Karmanau and Minsk photojournalist Sergei Grits visited the Belarussian side of the contaminated zone and showed how ... locals today still living along a radiation-tainted river. They took a ...