Since then, about 50 people have died from radiation sickness. That includes 28 workers and firefighters who were killed at the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine.

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

The confinement structure at Chernobyl that Mr. Schmieman worked on was an engineering and construction feat, designed to protect the damaged reactor for 100 years. To minimize radiation exposure ...

there is still much more to learn about why the genes evolved rather than the dogs simply dying from radiation exposure. While these gene mutations have allowed the dogs to survive in Chernobyl ...

with bandits and spies fighting in Soviet-era ghost towns while dodging radiation patches. In reality, Chernobyl is less abandoned than outsiders might imagine. The ill-fated nuclear reactor and ...

“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” the IAEA said on X. Zelenskyy said on Telegram that the Chernobyl strike showed that Putin "is certainly not preparing for ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began ... Over the next few weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalised with acute radiation sickness, and 28 of the firemen and emergency clean ...

Chernobyl is still very radioactive ... In 2005, it predicted a further 4,000 might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure.