The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster ... these predators have formed strong populations despite the radiation exposure. But are they adapting in ways we don’t fully understand?

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.

Although most think of Chernobyl as a wasteland ... more than 450 animals were tested for radiation exposure, received medical care, vaccinations and were spayed or neutered.

Fortunately, thyroid cancer is a very treatable disease, so few of the 2,000 who have developed it as a result of Chernobyl have died. Professor Dillwyn Williams, from the Strangeways Research ...

all monitoring results have shown that there has not been any increase in the normal range of radiation levels measured at the site nor any abnormal readings detected". It said the IAEA team at ...

The UN's nuclear watchdog (the IAEA) said radiation levels inside and outside Chernobyl were normal and stable - but later the plant's chief engineer, Oleksandr Titarchuk, said the possibility of ...