About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million ...
Alexander Rozhko is director of the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, in Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of about 500,000. It is located ...
Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...
MOSCOW, 1 October (BelTA) – A new program to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster until 2030 is being prepared within the Union State of Belarus and Russia, BelTA learned from the press ...
MINSK, 24 January (BelTA) – On 23 January, Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva Larisa Belskaya met with Special Representative of the United Nations ...
The station's fourth reactor in the north of former Soviet Ukraine exploded in 1986 after a safety test went horribly wrong. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986 after a safety test went ...