BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world's worst nuclear accident

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Worst ever nuclear disaster Chernobyl caused by pressing one wrong button

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 ...

Chernobyl: the five best things to watch and play to understand the disaster

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...

PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

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

What happened at Chernobyl?

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

Video. Ukraine’s Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ return 40 years after disaster

Video. Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned ...
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Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let go

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