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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 26, 1986, a fire and explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor north of Kiev, Ukraine, resulted in the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster.

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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 ...

Sky's Chernobyl TV series is ranked as one of the top five IMDb shows of all time, and it is free to watch for the first time ever ...

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 ...