"Exposure to isotopes of iodine give the thyroid more than 1,000 times the average dose to the rest of the body." It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health ...

asking her to remove children from the area so their bodies could have time to recover from radiation exposure. The fax inspired Roche to found Chernobyl Children International, an organization ...

Chernobyl's "Red Forest" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones. Prof Tom Scott is from Bristol University and co ...

A second study published on Thursday, meanwhile, shows how exposure to the residual radioactive material caused the development of thyroid cancer. The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26 ...

has become "the most dangerous place on earth" — a place where two minutes of exposure would cut a person's life expectancy in half. Read more: Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear-power ...

Until the Chernobyl accident, the risk of radioactive iodine exposure from a nuclear plant accident was not established, and the safety of prophylactic, high-dose KI administered to a large ...