Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

The accident led to the abandonment of most atomic projects on the continent. Politicians and analysts are now once again ...

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 explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that drone impacts have degraded the Chernobyl steel protective ...

Tiny worms that live in the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were found to be immune to radiation — which scientists hope could provide clues about why some humans develop cancer, while ...

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...