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 ...

A fungus has been discovered growing on the Number 4 reactor, feeding off the radiation that preceded the tragic Chernobyl nuclear disaster which led to thousands evacuating ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Although most think of Chernobyl as a wasteland ... vaccinations and were spayed or neutered. The radiation testing revealed that the dogs living in the zone were not harmfully contaminated.