MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus has made significant efforts to tackle radioactive pollution following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, CIS First Deputy Secretary General Igor Petrishenko said during ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Belarus is willing to join efforts with all stakeholders to minimize the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the basis of the principles of equal rights and mutual respect, ...

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic Chernobyl ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

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 ...

Experts fear military activity could cause radioactive material to spread. As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, ...