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

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

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

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...

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

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

On April 28, 1986, Swedish scientists detected high levels of radiation, bringing to light the reactor explosion that ...

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...