The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

In 1986, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl released large amounts of ionizing radiation (IR) into the environment, and became one of the most serious ...

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VLADIMIR Putin could trigger the “worst disaster in Europe ever” at an occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine where “a million ...

After nearly 40 years, a new study has found that children of Chernobyl workers have mutations within their DNA ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, ...

Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, something has concerned scientists: can exposure to radiation leave marks in someone’s DNA that are passed on to ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...