CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the ...

Khaberni - Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, a new study reveals clear evidence of some ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...

The frogs’ adaptation is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus has made significant efforts to tackle radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, CIS First Deputy Secretary General Igor Petrishenko said during ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

The Chernobyl disaster confirmed everyone’s worst nightmares about the awesome power of nuclear reactions. When the Ukrainian reactor collapsed, the radioactive fallout profoundly contaminated the ...