Shutterstock When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown, it was a terrifying event for people around the world. As ...
The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...
(IVANKOV, Ukraine) — In the days before the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster today, workers hurriedly filled in pot holes and painted lines on the decrepit road to the destroyed ...
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, that saw a nuclear power plant go into meltdown before exploding and sending lethal dust into the air. A staggering 56,700 square miles ...
Anatoliy Koliadyn, 66, a former Chernobyl "liquidator," stands next to a monument to the Chernobyl liquidators in his neighborhood in Kiev, Ukraine, April 7, 2016. Liquidators are men and women who ...
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Management of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, said Sunday that 50 staff members who had been on the job since the plant was ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American CHERNOBYL, Ukraine—The face mask and three ...