During the Cold War, Sellafield uwas sed to produce weapons-grade nuclear material for the UK’s nuclear weapon ... Protection Agency (EPA), the radiation exposure from artificial radioactivity ...

Their fears seemed well-founded when, on the night of the invasion, sensors began reporting sudden spikes in radiation levels in the Chernobyl Exclusion ... If you look at a map showing the ...

Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear ... space missions is radiation.’ Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

In April 1986, Chernobyl was the scene of a major nuclear reactor disaster that released the largest amount of nuclear radiation into ... in parts of Norway and the UK. The human population ...

Przewalski's horses are breeding in the zone (Picture: Sergey Gaschak) The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station ... "Animals don't seem to sense radiation and will occupy an area ...

New studies have disclosed that these Chernobyl frogs lived just as long as their green counterparts, and their ageing rate was not affected by the radiation levels. This shock discovery could ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK ... radiation levels at the time of the accident, whereas current radiation levels seemed not to influence skin coloration in ...

Brits will be told to 'go in, stay in, tune in' if the UK is hit by a 'radiation emergency', according ... On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then-Soviet ...

Wikimedia Commons Map shows how Russia ... of the contaminate top soil around Chernobyl was moved and buried, having soaked up much of the ionizing radiation. Vitaliy Holovin - Corbis//Getty ...

“Since 1986, there has been a lot of misinformation about radiation risks from Chernobyl, which has negatively impacted on people still living in abandoned areas,” study lead author Jim Smith ...

selecting over generations for genes that confer resistance to radiation and the other stressors — cold, food scarcity — of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Scientists, in theory ...

Deadly radiation from Chernobyl is being absorbed by fungus growing inside the reactors (Picture: Getty) Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...