On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, POWER visits the site to document the decommissioning effort and ...

It's been about 35 years since the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now researchers have investigated whether exposure to ionizing radiation released in the accident caused lasting ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Radiation researcher: Richard Wakeford assesses the long-term impacts of radiation exposure (Courtesy: University of Manchester) The Chernobyl disaster showed us that exposure to radiation can affect ...

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. The 1986 ...

Two new studies have taken a closer look at the health effects the 1986 Chernobyl explosion had on those who were in the area at the time. The studies specifically detail the disaster’s effect on ...

Chernobyl, which is currently a town in the north of Ukraine, is infamous for the largest nuclear disaster in history when the town's nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown on April 26, 1986. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rural Ohio is facing comparisons to Chernobyl after a massive chemical leak caused by a train derailment. Here's what the disaster ...

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

An employee looks at monitors in the control room of the New Safe Confinement metal dome, which was designed and built by French consortium Novarka and encases the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...