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

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

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 ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

On April 26, 1986, a fire and explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor north of Kiev, Ukraine, resulted in ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...