The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

But… they had survived. For years, in fact. And now, 40 years post-Chernobyl, the wolves in the Exclusion Zone aren’t just ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled into the ...

Khaberni - Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, a new study reveals clear evidence of some effects of radiation exposure being passed to the next generation. Research ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs ...

Nastassia Astrasheuskaya joined Reuters as a correspondent in December 2010. She was born on Aug. 31, 1989, in the Belarussian city of Mogilev, three years after the nuclear disaster at the Ukrainian ...

Chernobyl is regularly labelled "the world's worst nuclear accident" - and with good reason. A working reactor caught fire, explosively. Radioactive debris was sent 30,000 feet into the air - the ...