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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Chornobyl proved not only the dangers of nuclear power, but also how concealing the truth from the people contributed to the ...

Video. Ukrainians in Slavutych on Sunday honoured the men and women whose mission it was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. People streamed in from different parts of the city to place ...

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV, April 26 (Reuters) - Ukraine commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster on Sunday, ...