In physics terms, radiation is simply energy on the move, carried by waves like sunlight or particles like those released by ...

The website explains it as: "Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of ...

Professor Jim Smith, from the University of Portsmouth, said: "This research is important for communities affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Since 1986 there has been a lot of misinformation about ...

Each year, the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day serves as a powerful reminder of the nuclear accident of 1986 that displaced hundreds of thousands, caused long-lasting environmental ...

Donald Trump has floated the idea of taking control of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, in a phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The conversation on Wednesday was described as ...

These papers were metal-analyzed and quantitatively analyzed using a similarity map generated through VOSViewer in order to visualize key themes and their interconnections. The research highlights ...

Chernobyl’s Reactor Four exploded during a safety test on April 26, 1986, leaking radiation that permeated the atmosphere to several parts of the USSR and western Europe.

A radiation shelter on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site was damaged by Russian drones, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian government says a fire broke out after a Russian drone ...

Russia’s military used a drone with a high-explosive warhead to hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging the protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks ...

A map of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, with dots to mark the worm collection sites and the different levels of radiation at each site. (Sophia Tintori) The CEZ worms were mostly more genetically ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. The ...

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has asked mushroom-pickers to send samples of this season's harvest for testing. The goal of the measurement project is to map the levels of Cesium-137 in ...