This video features a nuclear engineer reacting to the story of a firefighter involved in the Chernobyl disaster. The ...

Timothy Mousseau, a USC professor with a PhD in biology, and his colleagues have begun conducting the only on-site research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...

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 ...

A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...

Few environmental tragedies have been as deeply ingrained in popular culture as the Chernobyl disaster. In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion of unprecedented proportions, ...