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Could you survive 72 hours in Chernobyl?

Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and ...
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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone - and the mutations are hard to ignore

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

Russia Captured Chernobyl. The Wildlife Cameras Kept Recording.

The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...
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This Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans ...
CNN

Chernobyl radiation effects have not been passed on to next generation, study finds

Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. The 1986 ...
People

How Chernobyl, the Biggest Nuclear Disaster in History, Still Affects Ukraine 33 Years Later

The HBO miniseries about the 1986 crisis aired its finale Monday WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from HBO’s Chernobyl. The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb ...
The Mirror

EXCLUSIVE: Chernobyl survivors describe horror symptoms they are STILL suffering 37 years later

Chernobyl survivors have described the grim health issues and continued impact of radiation on their lives that they still suffer from 37 years later. Mykhaylo Khrushchenko was 34 and working as the ...
Euronews

Chernobyl could face 'catastrophic' collapse as repairs stall following Russian drone strike

Failure to repair the protective structure around the nuclear site could unleash 'highly radioactive dust' that 'does not recognise borders', experts warn. A potential collapse of the internal ...

Ukraine says drone hit nuclear fuel storage facility near Chernobyl

Ukraine says a Russian drone struck a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chernobyl, prompting concern from the IAEA over nuclear safety risks ...
BBC

Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the ...
Forbes

How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl

I just knew it! I was hoping I’d be wrong, that HBO would have the courage and integrity to do their homework and consult even one actual nuclear scientist or radiobiologist. Or even just read the ...
Los Angeles Times

Secrets of Chernobyl spill out more than three decades after the nuclear disaster

Reporting from Chernobyl, Ukraine — Seated in a jeep and clutching a screeching Geiger counter, Lt. Col. Viktor Chershnev led a convoy of 30 military trucks through the center of sleeping Kiev. The ...