Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...

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On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

MINSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Since 2002, more than 26,000 children from Belarusian and Russian regions affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident have undergone recuperation and treatment at the best ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such ...

Adi Roche, the founder and voluntary CEO of Chernobyl Children International, has responded after the building in Ukraine that confines the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl ...