A picturesque cowboy town has exploded into civil war over controversial plans that locals fear could kill them.

Russian troops stationed at Chernobyl have been taken to Belarus for treatment for 'acute radiation sickness', an employee at the Ukrainian state agency overseeing the exclusion zone has claimed ...

Chernobyl was a cataclysm of such magnitude that it is hard not to view events through the prism of a modern-day disaster movie. It is no coincidence that there are two bestselling video games set in ...

Former presidential candidate Adi Roche has said those running for the Áras “need to be strong”, citing her experience in a ...

The risks and rewards of radiation By 1989 angry crowds were questioning the Soviet Union’s handling of Chernobyl, and Soviet leaders asked foreign experts for help in assessing the disaster’s health ...

How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario ...

There are other buildings too. Chernobyl had three other reactors and continued to provide power until as recently as 2000. And activity, not just in the form of tourism, continues.

A genetic study conducted by the University of South Carolina and the National Human Genome Research Institute, published in Science Advances, has uncovered that dogs living within the Chernobyl ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

Chernobyl is the latest series to grip the nation, but what’s it really like to step inside the infamous exclusion zone and venture where few have for 33 years?