Radiation

Scientists in Tennessee have said they are working on what could be the first-ever drug to treat radiation sickness.

Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security said seven wildfires are burning in the area surrounding the nuclear power plant.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said there must be a ceasefire to allow repairs.

Timothy Mousseau, a professor of biological sciences, told Newsweek that military action in Chernobyl could be dangerous to the animals living there.

"Love It or List It" presenter Hilary Farr, 69, has spoken out about her breast cancer battle for the first time, seven years after her diagnosis.

More than 20 cases of the mystery illness have been reported in the Austrian capital this year, and it's not clear why.

Mollybear hit over 14 million views after owner Ryan Graney documented her experience of radiation treatment for a nose tumor.

Official and unofficial media outlets in China have yet to report on the incident or the nuclear plant operator's statement in any meaningful way since it was released on Sunday.

A French company that partly owns and helps operate the plant claimed the radiation limits were above French safety standards, CNN reported.

The red shade of a dinner plate was produced by adding uranium oxide to the glaze.

The Japanese government said in the past that everything is "under control," but measurements from the ocean show that the reactors are still leaking radiation.

Long-term moon missions could pose "substantial risks" to astronauts from space radiation, according to a study.

Scientists combined 100,000 years of the magnetic field's history with computer simulations to show rapid directional changes at certain points in history.

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said the radioactive substances were man-made.

"This is the first step in trying to understand the evolution of Mars' atmosphere," Håkan Svedhem, ESA's TGO Project Scientist, told Newsweek.

"There is bad news—radiation is above normal in the fire's center," Yegor Firsov, head of Ukraine's ecological inspection service said.

Radiation from dying main sequence stars can cause asteroids to spin until they break up, researchers have found.

A North Carolina man who attempted to use radioactive material to poison another man has been handed a 78 month prison sentence, according to officials.

The site was operational between 1954 and 1994 but is now in the process of being decommissioned.

The highway through the south of the Russian capital goes past a former metals processing site and could scatter radioactive particles into the air, the environmental group has warned.

A small town in England has temporarily banned 5G, after residents expressed health concerns about the technology. Experts seem less convinced that the wireless network poses a threat.

Tardigrades—otherwise known as "water bears" or "moss piglets"—are considered extremophiles, organisms that thrive in extreme environments.

The explosion killed at least five people and is believed to have involved a new nuclear-powered cruise missile.

Stories have been emerging from medical workers who treated victims of radiation following the blast on a platform in Noyonoksa, northern Russia.

Secretly filmed footage has emerged of the officer addressing concerned residents of the village of Nyonoksa.

An explosion near a reported missile testing site rocked Russia's northern Arkhangelsk province on Thursday, killing two and leading to a brief spike in radiation.

On April 26, 1986, a failed safety test of the number 4 reactor at the nuclear power plant caused a huge explosion, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the environment.

Researchers believe an incident at a nuclear reprocessing plant in central Russia was the cause, though Russian officials have always denied involvement.

The wreck of the K-278 Komsomolets sits around one mile under the Norwegian Sea in one of the world's largest fishing grounds.

The official Soviet death toll for the accident stood as just 31, despite its status as the worst nuclear disaster in history.