26 April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in the then Soviet-controlled country of Ukraine. In 1986, one of the power plant's reactors suffered an explosion, sending a radioactive ...

The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Ukraine said early Sunday that Russia struck areas near the Chernobyl nuclear facility, hitting a building that holds spent ...

The 'extremely vile Russian strike' has sparked fears of a new nuclear disaster.

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...

Russian soldiers have been injured.

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 ...