A genetic study conducted by the University of South Carolina and the National Human Genome Research Institute, published in ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s nuclear regulatory agency says the radiation monitors around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst meltdown in 1986, have stopped working.

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area are rapidly evolving. And ...

Radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has exceeded control levels after Russia troops took control of the area, Ukraine has said. Data from the automated radiation monitoring system of the ...

Thirty years ago, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine led to one of the world's worst radiation leaks. The fall out from the leak on April 26, 1986, was felt across ...

Greenpeace said Monday that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast.

Chernobyl farmland found fit for farming decades after nuclear disaster - Study confirms effective radiation dose to agricultural workers well below Ukraine’s national safety threshold ...

Trees and other kinds of vegetation have proven to be remarkably resilient to the intense radiation around the nuclear disaster zone. Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 ...

A radiation warning sign is placed near the check-point ‘Maidan’ of the state radiation ecology reserve inside the 30 km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 370 ...

Mousseau said Chernobyl is the ideal place to study the effects of prolonged radiation exposure because surrounding the city is a 2,600 sq km exclusion zone where human habitation is forbidden.

Chernobyl, the HBO mini-series that concluded this month, won rave reviews for its portrayal of “the untold true story” of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. This 1986 disaster in ...