Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan have built a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi receiver chip designed to survive the intense radiation inside damaged nuclear reactors, a development that could free ...

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"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

When a nuclear accident or terrorist attack affects thousands of people, medical teams face an impossible question: who was exposed to life-threatening radiation doses and who can safely go home?

ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted ...