In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

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

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

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

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

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...

The five-part series will air nightly for free next week on Sky Mix to mark the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic tragedy.

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...

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