Sweden was the first to detect the radioactive fallout of Chernobyl, which forced Soviet officials, who tried to cover up the disaster, to come clean days after the explosion. Hundreds of ...
The survival and resurgence of the region’s fauna is perhaps the only good to have come out of the unrelentingly bleak story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; it serves as a modest form of atonement, ...
OPINION — The late Mikhail Gorbachev wrote for the 20 th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in April 2006, “Chernobyl opened my eyes like nothing else…One could now imagine much more clearly what ...
The Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 occurred because of a failed test procedure that caused the reactor to go out of control. That led to an explosion and a series of tragic events to try to ...
While the government insists it's safe, the isotope could find its way into the food chain, warn researchers Los Alamos, where the American atomic bomb was born under the Manhattan Project led by ...