The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

In the shadow of Reactor 4, where the 1986 Chernobyl explosion unleashed history's worst nuclear catastrophe, hundreds of ...

Chernobyl’s ecosystems seem to be recovering just 19 years after the region was badly contaminated with radiation from a nuclear meltdown according to a report backed by the United Nations. The report ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

The head of Russia's environmental watchdog has warned of an "ecological Chernobyl" unless an abandoned and dilapidated chemical plant in the Siberian city of Irkutsk is dealt with swiftly. In 1986, ...

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Yes, it already has, but the truth is so much more boring than the assertions of megadeath, that it generally gets ignored. So how serious was Chernobyl? How many people were actually killed by ...

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Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986. Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been ...