An hour after midnight on 26 April 1986, a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused loss of human ...

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 ...

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

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

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 ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

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 ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years of upheaval for the peaceful farming community, and left a devastating leg ...

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists discovered strange populations of dogs surviving deep inside one of ...

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...

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 ...