The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which ...

Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine ... it was a herculean and heroic effort that largely managed to contain the radiation which hadn't been immediately released in the accident.

Pictured is the spread of the radioactive plume after the Chernobyl ... radiation exposure. Many monitoring networks also plot the location of nuclear power plants and other relevant sites on ...

Researchers studied the songbirds of Chernobyl and uncovered the surprising impact that radiation has had on their diets and ...

In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing ...

“I do think radiation levels currently present at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are not enough to produce marked organismal damage in wildlife, at least in most of Chernobyl areas,” said study ...

A recent study reveals that current radiation levels in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone are not significantly impacting the age, stress levels, or aging rate of local wildlife, particularly the ...

Love's research established that wolves in Chernobyl have altered immune systems, "similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment." This is important — as scientific research reveals ...

LVIV, Ukraine--Ukraine said on Wednesday there was a danger of a radiation leak at the Chernobyl nuclear power station after electricity was cut off to the plant, but the U.N. nuclear watchdog saw ...

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 ...