The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

There are 2,397,863 people registered with Ukraine’s health ministry to receive ongoing Chernobyl-related health care. Of these, 453,391 are children — none born at the time of the accident. Their ...

Growing uncertainty surrounding whether or not the terminally ill children of Chernobyl would be visiting the North West again this year has finally been dispelled. Growing uncertainty surrounding ...

Forty years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook Europe and affected generations of people living in Ukraine and the surrounding area. For years afterwards, English families stepped in to bring ...