It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

Radioactivity is one of humanity’s deepest existential fears, perhaps because unlike most existential threats, it is invisible. Vast swathes of the region around Chernobyl and Fukushima, site of the ...

On the morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor in a nuclear power plant in what’s now northern Ukraine exploded and burned—triggering what would become history’s deadliest nuclear accident. The hellish ...

Workers in Ukraine will soon begin the task of moving a 31,000-ton steel cover over the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) ...