Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...
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, ...
A major international study has found that children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster show no additional DNA damage linked to their parents’ radiation exposure. Scientists looked at people born ...
A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...