Thanks to shows like Chernobyl, most people know that exposure to nuclear radiation is bad for you, but what is it actually doing to your body?

A 2026 calendar featuring images of children still suffering health effects from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Uni

Dec 5 (Reuters) - A protective shield at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a strike Ukraine has attributed to Russia.

A Russian missile exploded at a military base, sending plumes of purple smoke skywards, according to local residents. It is believed that the explosion was caused by an unsuccessful missile launch, which disintegrated shortly after it was fired.

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs). The project is expected to bring 5,000 jobs to the state.

Those high capacity factors also undersell the fleet’s true reliability—a lot of the downtime is scheduled. Reactors need to refuel every 18 to 24 months, and operators tend to schedule those outages for the spring and fall, when electricity demand isn’t as high as when we’re all running our air conditioners or heaters at full tilt.

Seven years on after one of the most catastrophic natural and nuclear disasters in history, we return to Fukushima to push past the headlines and tell the untold story of the forgotten victims of the disaster,