In terms of direct deaths attributable to the accident, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster turned out to be anything but a highly destructive force. Whereas the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Until the 19th century, the Pripyat River basin on the border between Ukraine and Belarus was wetland and forest. As usual, humans kind of ruined it. They burned down forest for pastureland and cut ...

Within the desolate landscape surrounding the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, hundreds of feral, radioactive dogs are displaying extraordinary genetic mutations. A recent study reveals that ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

AP reports -- "The Chernobyl disaster underscored that mankind must be extra careful in using nuclear technologies," Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych said during a ceremony Thursday inaugurating ...

Mykola Volkozub, a former Ukrainian military pilot who aided in the response to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, returned to the site for the first time since the 1986 meltdown. The 87-year-old ...

Japanese photographer and film director Seiichi Motohashi, known for documenting villagers living in the aftermath of the ...

At 1:23 a.m. Moscow time on April 26th, 1986, the unthinkable happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It would be years before the world got a proper sense of what exactly occurred, and even ...

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HBO's critically acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries is trending on streaming charts amid the festive season, despite its ...