Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast. Scientists are ...

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THE CONVERSATION via AP — On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human ...

Science allowed us to understand the Chernobyl explosion - uncovering the layers of negligence and misinformation was much harder. Photo: Getty On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl ...

How to Survive shares survival secrets from spending 72 hours in Chernobyl’s radioactive zone, revealing how to navigate danger zones safely. They highlight precautions and strategies to minimize ...

In April 1986, the cause of a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is mysteriously shrouded in a veil of secrecy; now, experts examine declassified documents to uncover the true ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A German security guard checks for radiation after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...