The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been sure whether the children of people ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...