But somehow, the still-very-real health risks inherent to lingering around certain parts of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone just didn’t sink in with Russian soldiers and their commanding officers based ...

Bleak landscapes, soldiers in gas masks and mutant creatures running through the Red Forest. Basically, a perfect place for ...

A wolf trots through a stand of Scots pine less than 10 miles from the entombed Chernobyl reactor, its image frozen by a motion-activated camera bolted to a tree. The photograph, part of a publicly ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Russian soldiers setting up offensive ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which released a radioactive cloud across Europe and led to the evacuation of ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant – the worst civilian ...

There may be a view that the nuclear disaster is an event from long ago and no longer poses a threat, but the reality is very ...