The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the children of the workers are still living with the fallout. Until now, scientists haven't been sure whether the children of people ...

CCOC Founder Nancy Spielberg and actor Jesse Eisenberg attend Chabad's Children of Chernobyl Children at Heart gala at Pier 60 on November 22, 2010 in New York City. CCOC Founder Nancy Spielberg and ...

Submitted photo Viktoryia Paliakovich, a native of the Republic of Belarus in Eastern Europe, will graduate in May from Youngstown State University with a master’s degree in English language and ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

Growing uncertainty surrounding whether or not the terminally ill children of Chernobyl would be visiting the North West again this year has finally been dispelled. Growing uncertainty surrounding ...

MINSK, 11 September (BelTA) – Belarus' First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Mikhnevich took note of the contribution of the Children of Chernobyl charity fund to the development of ...

A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...

Forty years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook Europe and affected generations of people living in Ukraine and the surrounding area. For years afterwards, English families stepped in to bring ...