On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the ...

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

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...

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

Russia’s invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, “We ...

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

Photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit ...

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

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