While there might be impacts in a “very local area,” the bombing shouldn’t create “a massive environmental fallout,” one ...

The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the worst nuclear accident ever, in Chernobyl, now Ukraine, in 1986, expanded the ...

The team’s other study, also published in Science, examines the relationship between Chernobyl fallout and hundreds of cases of thyroid cancer among people who were exposed. The study provides ...