In a case like Chernobyl there is long term contamination, and very little knowledge about the effects of such contamination.” The Corporation supports a number of Chernobyl-related projects in ...

At Chernobyl, on the other hand, radioactive material enters the atmosphere and disperses, so its health effects were more indirect and long-term. Latest videos ...

"The WHO report on the health effects of Chernobyl gives the most affected countries, and their people, the information they need to be able to make vital public health decisions as they continue ...

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 ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

During the immediate aftermath of the accident at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power in April 1986, a total of 53,000 people were evacuated from the nearby city of Pripyat to various villages in ...

“They give us valuable novel information on the effects that radiation has on juvenile birds—an area of research that has been unclear until now.” The disaster of Chernobyl in 1986 continues ...

A Russian drone has hit the radiation shelter at the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The “high-explosive” warhead the ...

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 ...

The IBRAE’s founder and science doyen, Leonid Bolshov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was personally involved in efforts to eliminate the effects of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl NPP ...

Since 1990, Prof Jim Smith from the UK's University of Portsmouth has studied the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and, while he admits the strike was a "horrendous attack on a very ...