The exact impact of the radiation depended on whether it was raining when contaminated winds passed overhead. A lot of the radioactive strontium and plutonium particles released by Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl’s ghostly Red Forest, one of the most radioactive sites on the planet, has been mapped by specially-equipped drones to measure the extent of its contamination. Researchers from the UK ...

The survey not only allowed researchers to map radiation distribution ... waste is not only an issue at Chernobyl. The UK has 4.9 million tonnes of contaminated material requiring safe disposal ...

The 1,000-square-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was established ... that can be used to predict hot spots within the contaminated areas. The map used data compiled by the Life Sciences University ...

The map says Bartolomeyevka is ... recognized as directly caused by radiation contamination and calls attempts to link other diseases with the Chernobyl accident “stupidity,” suggesting ...

The goal of Yitz’s epic genealogy investigation was to find this important ancestor and map all ... within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the one-thousand-square-mile swath of contaminated ...

British scientists have used drones to create the most comprehensive radiation maps ever of the fallout zone from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Red Forest, just 500 metres from the site of ...