The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

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 ...

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

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.

I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing and so modern.” Inspired by that first visit, she returned a few years ...

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and other regions. But four decades after the accident, nuclear power is seeing ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...