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A nuclear disaster that caused many deaths, including that of the Soviet Union 'MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union,' reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the [...]

At the cusp of two centuries, humanity faces a crossroads in energy development. At the same time as the fossil fuel use of the twentieth century has increased pollutants in [...]

The Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster that happened 15 years ago triggered in its wake a "chain of generosity" throughout the world, John Paul II stated recently. At an April audience, […]

This month, the world's most notorious power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, will be laid to rest. Nick Middleton takes us around the region's hotspots to assess the legacy of the [...]

Officials of Ukraine's health ministry said that the health effects of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power station in April, 1986, are continuing to worsen. According to ministry figures, [...]

Doctors and nurses who work in or have visited the areas most affected by the radioactive fallout from the two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Apr. 26, 1986, report a rise in serious illnesses and a decline in resources with which to treat them. Professor Fomin, chief surgeon at Hospital 12 in Kiev, Ukraine, points out that the full effects of the disaster are beginning to come to light 10 years later. He explains that he is seeing six times as many people with stomach cancer but that budget cuts have left his hospital with no anaesthetics or antibiotics.

Surprising news across Europe includes the fact that the area around Chernobyl seems to be relatively unaffected by radiation sixteen years later and that important works of art can be stolen in broad daylight as most galleries cannot afford the security required to fend off criminals.

The very name 'Chernobyl'--a small Ukranian town, where a nuclear reactor exploded exactly ten years ago on the 'fateful day' 26 April 1886--had become 'synonymous with disaster', General Assembly President [...]

Several weeks after the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, researchers began screening residents of the most fallout-prone regions for radioactive iodine--a nuclide readily taken up by plants, eaten by cows, [...]