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, ...

THE CHERNOBYL Children North Dublin Group have extended a big thank-you to all the local community and local businesses for their whole-hearted and generous support over the summer. In July, 18 boys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of ...

Anya wasn’t even born when Chernobyl exploded nearly 30 years ago, but even today its radioactive fallout stalks her and other Ukrainian youngsters growing up near the disused plant. The world’s worst ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; ...

FINGAL families have been asked to consider hosting a child from Chernobyl, as the 25th anniversary of the disaster approaches. April 26th next year will mark a quarter of a century since the worst ...