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Babies born today in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine face as big a risk of contracting radiation-related illnesses as children...
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, will be permanently closed on Dec....
Four Eastern European nations — Bulgaria, Moldava, Romania, and Ukraine — signed an agreement yesterday to increase the protected land...
Belarus citizens have soaring levels of infertility and other serious health problems 14 years after the Chernobyl disaster, doctors announced...
Ukraine plans this year to shut down the Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, Ukranian Pres....
Japan’s worst nuclear accident — a September 1999 incident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura — exposed 439 people...
Ukraine restarted the last working nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant on Friday after almost five months of repairs,...
The CIA told Congress yesterday that there’s cause for concern about the Y2K bug compromising the safety of aging Soviet-era...
A project to eliminate any Y2K bugs from 14 aging, problem-prone nuclear reactors in the Ukraine has just gotten underway,...