Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

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 ...

The huge fire has spread over 1,100 hectares.

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

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 ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released massive radiation and affected millions. Dozens died immediately, with thousands more linked to long-term effects. The area remains restricted as cleanup continues ...

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

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 ...

Tributes have been paid to those who risked their lives tackling the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986, with a fundraising process launched for ongoing safety work at an international ...