The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible ...

Chernobyl has long been described as a closed chapter, but the site has never stopped being hazardous. The 1986 explosion and fire killed 31 people in the immediate aftermath, and the radioactive ...

According to head of the Atominfo research center Alexander Uvarov, forest fires that periodically occurred in the Ukrainian segment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone may have more significant radiation ...