April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

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 ...

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 ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners ...

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

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then the plant was in the USSR, it is part of northern ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them. A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children ...

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...