where researchers have for decades studied the cross-section of medicine and low-dose radiation. For them, Chernobyl is still relevant, especially in light of what's happening now. We spoke with ...

Two years before the Chernobyl plant disaster – on the ... appropriate velocity (neutron temperature) for the neutron cross section of the target fuel. In the case of uranium-235, so-called ...

A huge section of roofing covering part of the defunct nuclear power plant at Chernobyl has collapsed under the weight of snow. Officials immediately denied any threat of radiation even though the ...

KIEV, Ukraine – Fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the fire is ...

Thirty years ago today, on Tuesday, April 26, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down outside Pripyat, Ukraine. The resulting explosion killed 31 people almost immediately, and the spray of ...

The victims of Chernobyl continue to suffer both physically and mentally. It is our moral duty to help them while continuing to limit the ecological consequences of this disaster. Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Not everyone evacuated when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down in 1986. The few who stayed lived through another calamity when Russian troops marched in. Bumper cars in the abandoned city of ...

As the 30th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear accident, approached, that team set out to break news, and they did. The results are the Beat of the Week. First, Minsk-based reporter ...