Almost exactly forty years ago, Chernobyl’s number four reactor exploded in what proved to be the single most devastating ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Failure to repair the protective structure around the nuclear site could unleash 'highly radioactive dust' that 'does not recognise borders', experts warn. View on euronews ...

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

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 Greenpeace, an international environmental organisation founded in 1971, has warned of radioactivity risk at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its shell got damaged. The warning comes days ...