The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

Until the Chernobyl accident, the risk of radioactive iodine exposure from a nuclear plant accident was not established, and the safety of prophylactic, high-dose KI administered to a large ...

Fortunately, thyroid cancer is a very treatable disease, so few of the 2,000 who have developed it as a result of Chernobyl have died. Professor Dillwyn Williams, from the Strangeways Research ...

Her book, Voices from Chernobyl, consists of a series of monologues and is a record of the oral history of the people of Belarus, those who were scarred by the event – knowingly or unknowingly ...

But years after an event, it’s impossible to find news, right? Wrong, as an AP team in Eastern Europe showed. As the 30th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear accident, approached, that ...

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich returned to the place where she grew up to give voice to the people who lived through the events a ...

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...