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

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 ...

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.

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four ...

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 ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...

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

Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is ...