Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

The story of the clean-up at the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine in April 1986 ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

Thousands have succumbed to radiation-related illnesses, including various forms of cancer, since the 1986 disaster ...

IT was known as the Stairway To Hell – a suffocating chamber leading to the roof of Chernobyl’s reactor four, which had been ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor ...

Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

Chernobyl 'biorobot liquidator' Sergei Belyakov has revealed how volunteering for nuclear clean-up damaged his health.

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...