Chernobyl

BySharon Guynup Photographs ByMike Hettwer Published April 26, 2023 • 11 min read When Timothy Mousseau arrived at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 2017, one of the world’s most radioactive places, the population of stray dogs in the area had grown to about 750. The dogs were assumed to…

Jamaica's 2016 Olympic and 2017 World Championships 110m hurdles champion Omar McLeod is born this day in 1994. (Photo: AFP) Today is the 115th day of 2023. There are 250 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 2000: The United Nations releases a new assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear…

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Scientists out of the National Human Genome Research Institute and the University of South Carolina have begun studying the effects of radiation on hundreds of feral dogs and how it could have altered their genomes in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), the area in Northern Ukraine affected by the explosion…

ON APRIL 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Nearly four decades later, the Chernobyl Power Plant and many parts of the surrounding area remain uninhabited—by humans, at least. Animals of all kinds have…

Zusha Goldin Jacqueline Lesko has been promoted to President of Production at Word Games — the production company founded by multiple Emmy-winning writer, producer and director Craig Mazin, which is best known for its work on HBO’s smash hit series Chernobyl and The Last of Us. Lesko co-exec produced The…

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. "Attempts to blackmail or intimidate us are completely futile" GSC Game World, the Ukrainian devs working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chernobyl, have claimed that one of their employees has…

If you're watching The Last of Us, you would have heard the words "Fireflies" and "FEDRA" thrown around a lot. But who are they again? The two groups are featured both in the Naughty Dog game and the HBO adaptation by Chernobyl director Craig Mazin and The Last of Us…

Oksana Masters was born with severe disabilities, including missing shinbones and thumbs, which are thought to have been caused by her mother’s exposure to radiation after the Chernobyl disaster three years earlier, She went on to win 17 medals in the Paralympics, seven of them gold - Martin Schoeller When…

Map of sampling locations. Zoomed in portion of map highlights cesium deposition across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (blue outline) in Northern Ukraine and a portion of Southern Belarus, adapted from Ager et al. Sampling locations are indicated, with Nuclear Power Plant (N = 60) in yellow and Chernobyl City (N = 56) in blue. Credit:…