In one multinational effort, a New Jersey company is using plants to clean up nuclear contamination from the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Using traditional technology to clean ...

The black fungus, known as Cladosporium sphaerospermum, has been found to not only survive but thrive in one of the most extreme radiation environments on Earth ...

He spent 25 days participating in the clean-up effort. According to his official ... Malish spent four and a half months at and near Chernobyl after the disaster, helping with decontamination ...

Nuclear disaster sites, such as Chernobyl or Fukushima, remain highly radioactive, making cleanup efforts dangerous and complicated. Traditional decontamination methods involve expensive and ...

a nuclear-waste-disposal researcher at the University of Sheffield who's been assisting with the Chernobyl cleanup. That might not be the case in certain areas of the Marshall Islands, an area in ...

PITTSBURGH--The Soviet official responsible for the decontamination of the stricken Chernobyl nuclear power plant has acknowledged ... solutions and resort to human labor to complete the cleanup.

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ... followed reports of chronic respiratory problems among clean-up workers. It looked for molecular abnormalities in the ...

WASHINGTON--One week after the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in April 1986, Soviet contacts called Carnegie Mellon University robot researcher William ("Red") Whittaker to ask for help in saving ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...