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TOKYO (AP) — Six people who were children living in Fukushima at the time of the 2011...

TOKYO (AP) — Six people who were children living in Fukushima at the time of the 2011...

Scientists have detected nuclear reactions taking place underneath the new confinement that isolates the destroyed reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Buried uranium fuel poses a potential hazard. Specialists are trying to establish whether the reactions stop on their own or require urgent action, an article posted on Science magazine says.  According to Anatoly Doroshenko of the Institute for the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants, sensors track a growing number of neutrons, indicating ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Monday enforced tight security measures to prevent an opposition rally marking the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.

Denis Vishnevskiy, chief of the unit of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, speaks during his interview with the Associated Press at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. "This is a gigantic territory in which we keep a chronicle of nature," said Denis Vishnevskiy, 43, who has been observing nature in the reserve for the past 20 years. "The exclusion zone is not a curse, but our resource." The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the sit...