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 ...

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

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still reeling with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been able to determine if the children ...

There were scenes of great jubilation in Strabane recently when 120 children from the contaminated area of Chernobyl arrived for their annual three-week holiday in the North West. There were scenes of ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook Europe and affected generations of people living in Ukraine and the surrounding area. For years afterwards, English families stepped in to bring ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; ...

There are 2,397,863 people registered with Ukraine’s health ministry to receive ongoing Chernobyl-related health care. Of these, 453,391 are children — none born at the time of the accident. Their ...

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 ...