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 ...
New Delhi: A protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine can no longer perform its primary function of blocking radiation, the United Nations said last week after a safety inspection ...
KIEV, Ukraine -- As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in ...