A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically significant increase in a specific type of DNA mutation in the offspring of ...

Maisie Crow's short documentary, Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now, for the Virginia Quarterly Review tells the story of the community that survived the Chernobyl disaster. Workers and their ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine — Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the ...

STORY: There was no immediate comment from the Russian authorities on the reported withdrawal from the Chernobyl plant, which was the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986. The area is ...

Nikolay Solovyov points to photograph depicting him in the control room in the nineties – Copyright Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP – Nikolay Solovyov was on shift ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; ...

Two workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station have been hospitalized as radiation-contaminated water seeped into their boots while laying power cables. They join 15 who've ...

Workers held hostage by Russian forces at the Chernobyl power plant have been blaring the Ukrainian national anthem daily, The Wall Street Journal reported. The exhausted and poorly-fed workers at the ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nataliia Khodemchuk's husband Valery died in the initial explosion at Reactor 4 in 1986 - State Agency of Ukraine of on Exclusion ...