In the years since, researchers have monitored the health of populations that lived through the Chernobyl disaster, from people in nearby towns to the “liquidators” who cleaned up and built a ...

Ukrainians paid tribute to the victims and clean-up team of the Chernobyl disaster, as Saturday marks its 39th anniversary. #EuropeNews ...

The dogs living in Chernobyl now get by on scraps, and handouts by people working in the power plant. The brave workers, who front the clean-up operation of the site, have been praised for their ...

Science writing, he realized, was the best job in the world -- it let him tell stories about space, the planet, climate change and the people working ... moved in to "clean up" the radioactive ...

The city of Pripyat, founded in 1970, was the nearest town to the power plant at just under 2 miles (3 km) away and housed almost 50,000 people in 1986. A smaller and older town, Chernobyl ...

Up to 30 percent of Chernobyl’s 190 metric tons of uranium was now in the atmosphere, and the Soviet Union eventually evacuated 335,000 people, establishing a 19-mile-wide “exclusion zone ...

Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began to fail in the early ... Although the 600,000 workers involved in the recovery and clean-up after the accident were exposed to high doses of ...

More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying ... excitedly prances around when she sees people. "Even though they’re wild, they still ...

Ukrainians gathered on Saturday to honour the victims and clean-up crews of the biggest nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl ... opportunity to thank those people who stayed at their workplaces ...