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 ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Over ...

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and ...

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, new fears are emerging around the safety of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Environmental group Greenpeace has issued a stark warning: damage caused by a ...