Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can ...

The extent of the nuclear fallout was illustrated by the fact that, within only a few hours after the accident began on April 26, radiation alarms sounded at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ... Kremlin denied it was responsible. Radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region — site of the world’s worst nuclear accident — have not increased ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers ...

The object’s radiation level reached 10,000 roentgens in the year of the Chernobyl accident - equivalent to a thousand times a dose sufficient to cause cancer. Experts also note that an hour of ...

Following the Chernobyl accident Belarus inherited a huge territory of contaminated land, resettled villages, broken ...

Another critical aspect a center could address, he said, is care beyond immediate needs for disaster victims and rescue workers. For instance, the Chernobyl response involved about 600,000 military ...

and about 600,000 people worldwide were exposed to an increased dose of radiation. On the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine paid tribute to the heroes who gave their lives and ...