A shield covering the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is no longer blocking radiation from the disaster site in Ukraine, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said. Ukraine said in February ...

Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. Parents ...

A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function following a drone strike earlier this year, according to a UN watchdog.

Chernobyl and Fukushima stand as the two most consequential nuclear accidents in human history, News.Az reports. Though separated by ...

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since the disaster - including 'evolving' dogs and cancer-resistant wolves ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. On ...

In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus is willing to join efforts with all stakeholders to minimize the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the basis of the principles of equal rights and mutual respect, ...

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The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting ...

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in ...