A fifteen-meter-wide hole in the roof of reactor number 4, the exact point of the 1986 explosion. Flames visible from ...

Concerns over fire hazards and toxic pollutants drove the community protest, which was attended by mayoral candidate Curtis ...

EC: Can you talk a bit about your research on Chernobyl survivors? ID: Chernobyl survivors — cleanup workers or liquidators, they're also called. It was our project with colleagues at the Department ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield more ...

A huge radioactive site which is planted on almost 600 acres of desert land has been compared to an "underground Chernobyl" with ... the circumstances behind the project. After WWII had finished ...

Ukrainian engineers are focusing on temporary fixes to address the most pressing issues caused by the attack. These repairs aim to stabilize the NSC until more comprehensive restoration work can be ...

The one HBO and Max show you should watch this April is a powerful dramatization of a traumatic event that happened nearly 40 years ago ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic ...

It was our project with colleagues at the Department of Human and Medical Genetics, and in the group, we had the idea to analyze the genomes of Chernobyl liquidators, and we invited them to ...