Europe is still reeling from the radioactive legacy of Chernobyl, a 1986 nuclear disaster that resulted in widespread contamination in Belarus, Ukraine, and Western Russia. More than 30 years ...

Chernobyl Children International, or CCI, works to help kids in the region whose lives have been impacted by a disaster that happened years before they were born. Many suffer from physical ...

But the cash-strapped Ukrainian government canceled the local school lunch program for 350,000 children last year — the only source of clean food in this village near Chernobyl. So rural ...

Some previous genetic studies of people affected by Chernobyl had claimed to find hints of heritable mutations, notably a 1996 study that found excess changes in children’s “minisatellites ...

UC San Francisco’s Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, grew up in Ukraine, trained as physician in Belarus, and has studied the long-term health impacts of radiation exposure on the Chernobyl cleanup workers, ...

Up to 30 percent of Chernobyl’s 190 metric tons of uranium ... Effects of Atomic Radiation has reported that more than 6,000 children and adolescents developed thyroid cancer after being exposed ...

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located about ... Union advised pregnant women to undergo abortions to avoid bearing children with birth defects or other disorders, though the actual level ...

The dogs of Chernobyl are genetically distinct ... virus testing and Covid in children.