A population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl. This nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, was one of the most terrible events in human history. While the human population ...

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Thirty-five years ago an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine released lethal radiation into the atmosphere. The nearest city, Pripyat, home to around 50,000 people ...

particularly in a country where many vividly remember the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere. The ...

For a series that airs strongly on the side of accuracy, "Chernobyl" took a detour with Khomyuk, who represents multiple Soviet scientists who investigated the cause of the power plant accident.

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure ... a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month.

TASS/. More than 1.7 million people, living in Russia, have been exposed to radiation as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Russian emergencies ministry’s press service told TASS.