A nuclear engineer takes a closer look at what remains of Chernobyl’s infamous Elephant’s Foot and what has changed since it ...

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A nuclear engineer explains Chernobyl’s most radioactive object, exploring its history, radiation, and the science behind the ...

The dogs of Chernobyl are a genetically distinct population that could shed light on the relationship between radiation and health. In 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...

A type of fungus found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was sent into space in a research project that aims to keep astronauts safe from radiation on deep space missions. “The greatest ...

The former nuclear power plant, deemed too radioactive for human habitation, is now teeming with a healthy animal population, a long-term study finds. Nearly 30 years ago, in April 1986, the Chernobyl ...

More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and ...

Growing up can be tough. You might imagine it would be even tougher in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), the roughly 1,000 square mile expanse of northern Ukraine left contaminated by the 1986 ...