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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

VIENNA (Reuters) – Russia’s control of radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl is limiting the flow of information out of them such that Ukraine cannot fully answer all the International Atomic ...