Since then, about 50 people have died from radiation sickness. That includes 28 workers and firefighters who were killed at the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine.

Within three months of the Chernobyl disaster, more than 30 people died of acute radiation sickness. Today, scientists estimate that tens, perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of people were ...

K-27 is at risk of becoming an “underwater Chernobyl ... including 40 with acute radiation sickness. The submarine was deemed unsalvageable and was eventually scuttled in Novaya Zemlya ...

Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night ... For context, just 50 -100 roentgens are enough to cause radiation sickness in a person. Thirty seconds of exposure would have caused dizziness ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... The Kremlin denied it was responsible. Radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region — site of the world’s worst nuclear accident — have ...

“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” the IAEA said on X. Zelenskyy said on Telegram that the Chernobyl strike showed that Putin "is certainly not preparing for ...