Parliament has cleared the SHANTI Bill, opening India’s State-controlled nuclear power sector to private and foreign ...

Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland told to ‘emphasise that the food chain was safeguarded in 1986’ ...

Could the dogs inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) be experiencing rapid evolution due to their exposure to the nuclear radiation left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986? Some ...

The director of the Chernobyl nuclear power station is warning that damage from a Russian strike could cause the plant’s internal radiation shelter to collapse, raising fears about renewed radioactive ...

A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has warned. Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly ...

Fears are mounting after a $2billion (£1.5bn) dome built over the remains of the Chernobyl disaster cracked following a Russian drone strike. The New Safe Confinement (NSC) in Ukraine was built over ...

A multibillion-dollar dome built around the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was badly damaged last year after a Russian drone strike blew a hole in it, sparking a fire and plenty of alarm.

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The mystery behind bright-blue dogs spotted wandering the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been solved, according to one expert. Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a scientific adviser ...

There may be a surprising reason behind the mysterious blue dogs that were recently spotted roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Photos taken earlier this year showed several dogs with bright blue ...

A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a result of a Russian drone strike. Officials from the ...

'Rapidly-evolving' dogs and frogs that change colour are some of the bizarre animal mutations reported at the radioactive Chernobyl site nearly 40 years on from the nuclear disaster. Scientists ...