The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...
On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...
Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of ...
In the shadow of Reactor 4, where the 1986 Chernobyl explosion unleashed history's worst nuclear catastrophe, hundreds of stray dogs have thrived amid lethal radiation. Evacuating 350,000 people and ...
The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident, with 31 people dying immediately and thousands more ...
(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...