This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; ...

After nearly 40 years, a new study has found that children of Chernobyl workers have mutations within their DNA ...

Chernobyl, which is currently a town in the north of Ukraine, is infamous for the largest nuclear disaster in history when the town's nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown on April 26, 1986. A ...

Khaberni - Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, a new study reveals clear evidence of some effects of radiation exposure being passed to the next generation. Research ...

The radioactive fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster has resulted in the rapid evolution of species nearby. "Skin coloration was darker in localities closest to areas with high ...

Russian soldiers gave up control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant earlier this month. Troops stationed there will "feel the consequences" of radiation poisoning soon, a Ukrainian official said.

After the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, local residents were forced to permanently evacuate, leaving behind their homes and, in some cases, their pets. Concerned ...

Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. The 1986 ...

(Kiev, Ukraine-AP) April 18, 2006 - Greenpeace has issued a report that says more than 90,000 people are likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. That's a far ...

Alexander Rozhko is director of the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, in Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of about 500,000. It is located ...