Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

A nuclear engineer reacts to a minute by minute breakdown of the Chernobyl control room disaster, separating fact from ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. A combination of poor planning and ...

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The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield more ...

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Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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