In 1986, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded. The disaster released cancer-causing radiation and irradiated debris into the environment, resulting in the world’s ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat ... landscape where high radiation levels remain even now, decades after the incident—where human settlement ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster since World War II decimated Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 years ...

Radiation-induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to a new study. The study ...

The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was built between 1972 - 1984 in New York. It was met with heavy protests from locals while under construction, this was due to the Chernobyl disaster, which ...

Fighting and shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have intensified calls from the UN to access the facility to try to avoid a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl.

Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown ... areas around the Ukrainian power plant. That restricted land, known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, now extends 1,000 square miles.