After two decades, the legacy of the Chernobyl disaster ... as we approach the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, hundreds of farming families are still living with the fallout." ...

During a visit with her and about a dozen other children at Ukraine’s largest medical clinic for people living with the consequences of Chernobyl, that's what she did: She sang. Bizilya ...

MOSCOW - Ex-Soviet governments are failing to protect their people from the deadly legacy ... Chernobyl containment facility, said he is convinced that the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima ...

The next lesson to be learned there, which was applied for the more recent Fukushima accident in Japan, is that you have to move people out of harm’s way quickly, which they did not do after the ...

A recent study showed that the same is true for the forests around the Fukushima ... Chernobyl’s forests burned there could be an increase in the cancer risk for a small percentage of people ...

But how do the circumstances of Chernobyl and Fukushima compare to each other ... opened to tourists by the following year (though living in the area is still prohibited). But people who visit ...

In 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl ... at Fukushima, including roughly six times more cesium-137, a radionuclide with a half-life of more than 30 years. Unlike the people living in ...

According to the severity scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Fukushima emergency was a level 7, equivalent to Chernobyl. The Fukushima countryside was no longer a fruit ...

In the first genetic study of any large mammal in the area around Chernobyl, DNA collected from feral dogs living near the power ... and their radioactive legacy — in the lean times ahead.

The world’s memory of Chernobyl has dimmed, its focus moved to other places in harm’s way, like Rwanda and Bosnia. But for people living in the contaminated areas of Ukraine, Belarus and ...