The Chernobyl reactor exploded a short distance away from the Soviet town of Pripyat in the Kiev Oblast, or region, near the border of Belarus ... levels of background radiation were being ...

At the invitation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Gosatomnadzor Head Olga Lugovskaya took part in the IAEA expert ...

Maite joined the AS USA in 2021, bringing her experience as a research analyst investigating illegal logging to the team. Maite’s interest in politics propelled her to pursue a degree in ...

MINSK, 22 April (BelTA) - The radiation situation in Belarus is improving, Yekaterina Shmeleva, deputy head of the Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of the Emergencies Ministry of ...

GUBAREVICHI, Belarus-- On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk.

A map provided by the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear ... said on Thursday the contaminated mushrooms came from Belarus, not Russia, telling ABC News: “These mushrooms ...

Alexander Rozhko is director of the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, in Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of about 500,000.

GUBAREVICHI, Belarus (AP) — On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn ...

For the residents of Belarus, a former Soviet republic, radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is a part of everyday life. Along with the daily temperatures, officials post daily radiation levels.

GUBAREVICHI, Belarus — On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of fresh milk.

Alexander Rozhko is director of the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, in Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of about 500,000.