The unique fungus was identified on the Chernobyl nuclear reactor as early as 1991. Initially, it was difficult to understand why any form of life existed at the nuclear disaster site. It took ...

and many of them are likely the descendants of pets left behind following the mass evacuation of Chernobyl residents. Norman J. Kleiman, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University ...

Though Chernobyl is still home to a 1,000-square ... Nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands could have provoked more long-term environmental damage. In a separate study, the researchers found ...

This publication provides technical and scientific information regarding the radiation monitoring, radio-ecological research and management of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant cooling pond. It ...

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The 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted AP journalists in Eastern Europe to produce disturbing environmental stories near the site in Ukraine and also from Mayak, the scene of ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?