April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...

Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that ...

Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned to the site. View on euronews ...

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

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 ...

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

People streamed in from different parts of the city to place candles on a large radiation hazard symbol as they marked the ...

Video. Ukrainians in Slavutych on Sunday honoured the men and women whose mission it was to clean up the worst nuclear ...

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

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 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 ...