April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

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

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.

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

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 ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...

On 26 April, 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, sending a radioactive cloud drifting across Europe. For days, the ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...