LOCALS have slammed their council over a playground that has become so run down it has been likened to Chernobyl. The play ...

In 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in then Soviet-controlled Ukraine exploded, sending a radioactive plume across Europe. The effects were devastating and the disaster's ...

"The time has come to change this." A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded in April 1986. It sent a radioactive plume across Europe and, according to the UN, nearly 50,000 ...

Until the Chernobyl accident, the risk of radioactive iodine exposure from a nuclear plant accident was not established, and the safety of prophylactic, high-dose KI administered to a large ...

This report was prepared after the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident, Vienna, 25–29 August 1986. A team of Soviet experts who presented a report on the accident at the Chernobyl ...