Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

The town of Pripyat, about 15 km northwest of Chernobyl, was home to roughly 45,000 people — all of whom were forced to abandon their homes within 24 hours of the explosion. By mid-May, more ...

Chernobyl is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which began on April 26 1986 with the explosion of the number 4 reactor. The New Safe Confinement around the destroyed reactor was ...