After nearly 40 years, a new study has found that children of Chernobyl workers have mutations within their DNA ...

In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

In 1986, the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl released large amounts of ionizing radiation (IR) into the environment, and became one of the most serious ...

As 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, commemorating it as a historical aberration allows Europe to move on without ...

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More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant — somehow still able to find food, breed and ...

Researchers from the University of Bonn have shown that children of cleanup workers at the power plant have an increased number of mutations in their DNA.