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 ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...

Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the reactor explosion at the Ukrainian power station 15 years ago. The elevated risk of thyroid cancer appears to continue throughout life Dr ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine left people wondering if radiation or artificial intelligence was to blame, but a veterinarian working in the ...