However, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the radiation exposure from artificial radioactivity in the Irish Sea is very low compared to the natural radioactivity in the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can safely return to production, according to new research. The study ...