The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their 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, ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been sure whether the children of people ...

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

MINSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Since 2002, more than 26,000 children from Belarusian and Russian regions affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident have undergone recuperation and treatment at the best ...

Nine children and three adults arrived in Seattle Tuesday for a six week health respite – a crucial escape from their homes in the Eastern European country of Belarus, where the radioactive ...

A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...

A GROUP of 22 children from Chernobyl and Belarus most of whom had never seen the sea or been to a beach before had the time of their lives in Ballybunion on Sunday afternoon, courtesy of the local ...

MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - I wasn't even born when Chernobyl blew up, but its deadly legacy haunted my childhood. Sign up here. One girl at my school had six fingers on one hand. My thyroid gland is ...