Chernobyl’s protective shield built disaster can no longer contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster after being ...

Last October, blue-furred dogs were discovered near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, sparking widespread ...

The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It is estimated that 31 plant staff members and emergency workers who were there that night died ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

In 2018, researchers even sent one of the Chernobyl molds, a strain dubbed Cladosporium sphaerospermum, to the International ...

The meltdown of one of the four reactors of the massive nuclear power plant near the town of Chernobyl in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was the result of badly flawed reactor design, sloppy ...

AT THE ENTRANCE to the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine stand two kiosks, painted a radioactive shade of yellow. Along with snacks for the tourists who descend ...

The fires have come within a mile of the former nuclear power station. Guides who offer tours of Chernobyl have warned that wildfires close to the former nuclear power station are out of control and ...

Thirty three years ago, after an explosion at a nearby power plant, the city of Pripyat in (what is now) Ukraine was evacuated. “Our guides, essentially, were two guys that were teenagers at the time ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine ...