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

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...

Chernobyl’s landscape recovered in unexpected ways, but uneven radiation, hidden harm, and human absence reveal a far more ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

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 ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...

One crazy man wanted Scuba dive under the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor! Through those same flooded technical tunnels where Super ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts say that the chances are ...

Damage inflicted by a drone strike on the protective structure surrounding a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant has left it unable to perform its core safety role, Reuters reported, ...