The reindeer gorged themselves and became radioactive. "The aftermath of Chernobyl was devastating," Chapple tells Business Insider. "[The herders] went from living this timeless lifestyle ...

Comparisons have been drawn between the site in the town of Inverclyde and Chernobyl, the derelict nuclear power plant in ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

Business Insider recently visited the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which encompasses the devastated nuclear power station and the highly radioactive ghost town nearby. It was just after ...

Experts fear people who eat fish from waters contaminated by a radioactive pollutant discharged by nuclear plants and factories are at a greater risk of developing cancer than was previously thought.

the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, after years of heightened fears of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, was the stuff of nightmares. It sent a plume of radioactive ...

According to earlier reports, a fire measuring 20 hectares in area was spotted in the zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant MOSCOW, September 4. /TASS/. Radioactive substances, should they get ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

KIEV, September 21. /TASS/. About 20,000 cubic meters of liquid radioactive waste have been accumulated at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but the exclusive zone has not enough space to store ...