VIENNA — Nearly two decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster spread radioactive fallout across much of Europe, a United Nations study has concluded that the health effects have been far smaller ...

The health and environmental effects attributed to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine on 26 April 1986 have been subject to extensive scientific examination; however, ...

VIENNA (Reuters) – Staff on duty at Chernobyl’s Russian-held radioactive waste facilities have not been rotated in four days and Ukraine cannot say when that will change because of fighting in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A view shows a wooden house on fire in Lyudvynivka in Kiev Region VIENNA (Reuters) - Radiation from fires that have ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a New Safe Confinement structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl VIENNA (Reuters) - ...

Nuclear, health and development experts from several global organizations will brief journalists in Vienna on Monday, 5 September 2005, on their latest findings of the consequences of the 1986 ...

If envy is a deadly sin then many of us were guilty of it last month when we congregated in Manchester, England. We were there for the Beyond Nuclear conference on the terrible legacies of the ...

The finding came after readings were taken this week at the site, which Russian forces had occupied but withdrew from in late March. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Radiation levels are elevated in some parts ...

On the night of April 28, 1986, Radio Moscow broadcast a terse announcement that an accident had taken place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: “One of the atomic reactors has been damaged.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Radiation from fires that have torn through forests around Ukraine’s defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant poses “no risk to human health”, the U.N. atomic agency said on Friday, ...