Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.

The highly contaminated control room for Reactor No. 4 is seen inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...

Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher levels of radioactive contamination than wolves living near the Chernobyl ...