Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl ...

The buzz around HBO acclaimed series Chernobyl demonstrates that nuclear accidents continue to capture the public imagination. But while the effects of exposure to high doses of radiation are ...

U.S. official confirms Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory 02:26. Russian troops who had occupied the nuclear power station at Chernobyl may have been exposed to "significant doses" of ...

Chernobyl exposed hundreds of ... Scientists estimate that there will ultimately be about 16,000 excess thyroid cancers produced as a result of iodine-131 exposure from Chernobyl. At ...

The stray dogs of Chernobyl -- whose ancestors were exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the 1986 plant meltdown ... they might find that their genes have mutated and caused sickness.

Ukraine's defense ministry cited two reasons for the Russian exit: military losses and radiation exposure. They likely disturbed polluted soil in the Chernobyl zone's contaminated Red Forest.

Chernobyl's dogs stuck around after the nuclear disaster. Scientists are examining their genetics for long-term effects of radiation exposure.

Very high levels of ionizing radiation cause "radiation sickness."At Chernobyl, 134 liquidators quickly developed radiation sickness, and 28 of them died from it.

The explosion on April 26, 1986, at the V.I. Lenin, or Chernobyl, Atomic Energy Station in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is thought to have “vaporized” one worker on ...

Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power ...

CHERNOBYL on HBO has left viewers with a number of questions after the series came to an end in June. One such question is what the symptoms of radiation sickness are following an explosion like ...

In the Chernobyl accident, all 134 patients with acute radiation sickness had bone marrow depression, 19 had widespread radiation dermatitis, and 15 had severe gastrointestinal complications. 18 ...