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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A large forest fire burned through the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday following a drone crash near the disaster-tainted ...

Decades of anti-nuclear protests in Germany, stoked by past accidents, had pressured successive governments to end using a technology that critics saw as unsafe and unsustainable. Germany switched off ...

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 ...

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

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.