A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically significant increase in a specific type of DNA mutation in the offspring of ...

Maisie Crow's short documentary, Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now, for the Virginia Quarterly Review tells the story of the community that survived the Chernobyl disaster. Workers and their ...

Workers held hostage by Russian forces at the Chernobyl power plant have been blaring the Ukrainian national anthem daily, The Wall Street Journal reported. The exhausted and poorly-fed workers at the ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners ...

Nikolay Solovyov points to photograph depicting him in the control room in the nineties - Copyright Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP - Nikolay Solovyov points to ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine — Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the consequenes. Until now, scientists haven't been sure whether the children of people ...

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

Two workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station have been hospitalized as radiation-contaminated water seeped into their boots while laying power cables. They join 15 who've ...