Pictured is the spread of the radioactive plume after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Most countries have a series of government-run stations set up to monitor atmospheric radiation, as a general ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history, one that has been covered countless times.

The next phase of the project has begun to study which parts of the shelter built rapidly around Chernobyl's unit 4 after the 1986 accident need immediate dismantling and which bits need stabilisation ...

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 ...

Humans may be unable to return to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for 20,000 years because radiation exposure can lead to cancer. So a team of international researchers wondered how ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It's a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show ...

The International Chernobyl Project was launched in 1990 at the request of the Government of the USSR to assess the environmental and health situation in the areas of the Soviet Union contaminated by ...

The Chernobyl power plant was the site of the ... and the blast created a fire that burned for 10 days, sending a plume of radioactive smoke across Europe. A 30-mile exclusion zone was set up ...