Colony reproduction reduced by 30 to 45 percent at radiation doses previously considered too low to impact insects Bumblebees exposed to levels of radiation found within the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to ...

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The strike hit the concrete shelter that covers ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

Greenpeace warned on Tuesday that a possible collapse of an internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee will organize the 2016 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium. Its focus will be on commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor, where radiation levels can still kill a human in minutes, dark-pigmented fungi have been quietly thriving for decades. These organisms, rich ...

Images of dogs with bright blue fur near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have left people scratching their heads. These canines are believed to be descendants of pets abandoned in northern Ukraine ...