The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.
After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...
Nearly forty years after the 1986 nuclear accident near Pripyat, scientists have found measurable genetic changes in people whose fathers were exposed to the fallout while living in the town or ...
On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...