After nearly 40 years, a new study has found that children of Chernobyl workers have mutations within their DNA ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...
Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...
In 1986, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl released large amounts of ionizing radiation (IR) into the environment, and became one of the most serious ...
When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...