KIEV, Ukraine — Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, farmers and volunteers tasked with taking part in the Chernobyl cleanup operation ...

Four decades after Chernobyl, something weird is happening inside the Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area ...

After Chernobyl, complexity surrounds local health problems Elizabeth Landau, CNN 9 ... There’s no “Chernobyl” name tag on tumors in people who suffered radiation exposure.

After the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, nearby villages were classified into four zones. ... “People get sick a lot, but neither children nor anyone here are needed.

People in affected areas are still coming into daily contact with dangerously high levels of radiation from the April, ... Thousands of children, even those born 30 years after Chernobyl, ...

The 50,000 people who once lived there were hastily evacuated after the explosion; today the only human sounds are the tourist groups who come to marvel at the baleful remains, including a rusting ...

Consequently, 350,000 people were evacuated from the towns surrounding the power plant after 28 were killed immediately by the explosion. However, an estimated 3.5 million were ultimately affected ...

People with severe iodine deficiencies develop enlarged thyroid glands, or goiters. ... But after Chernobyl, the most significant release of radioactive iodine ever, ...

KIEV, UKRAINE - With every cough and sore throat, Valentyna Stanyuk feels Chernobyl stalking her. "It's only a matter of time," she said as she waited for a thyroid test at a mobile Red Cross ...

Thirty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future. The ...

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