Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable ... Even if the animals are not showing any signs of being ill, there could be defects being passed on to future generations.

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are common among these children. Below, 4-year-old Rostislav gets a checkup before undergoing open-heart surgery to correct two holes and a faulty valve in his heart.

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields. The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It's a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

Chernobyl’s reactor meltdown remains history’s worst nuclear ... damage to plantlife, and birth defects in both humans and animals. The ecological damage remains difficult to comprehend, but the ...

The scientific debate is ongoing over whether congenital birth defects can be linked to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened 30 years ago this month. Physicians in the ...