Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine ... it was a herculean and heroic effort that largely managed to contain the radiation which hadn't been immediately released in the accident.
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster since World War II decimated Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 years ...
Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.
After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest. Cladosporium ...
Researchers studied the songbirds of Chernobyl and uncovered the surprising impact that radiation has had on their diets and ...
For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...