On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...

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

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

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

Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the Chernobyl disaster, detailing his experiences and the lasting impact of the tragedy on Ukraine ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

The white-coated Soviet scientist in an old public information film could not have been more reassuring.

Mr Petro Hurin was among hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” brought in to clean up. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

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

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

A service will be held in Bolton town centre on April 26 to remember those who lost their lives in the Chernobyl disaster four decades ago ...