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 ...

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago. Many of them still lie rusting inside the exclusion zone.

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

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any ...

The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

Queen Elizabeth II lives on at the Cool Britannia gift shop across the road from Buckingham Palace. Four years after the ...

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the worst nuclear plant disaster in history. On the 26th of April 1986, reactor four at ...

Explore 25 spectacular backfires throughout history! Discover epic plans that went horribly wrong, from military blunders to ...

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

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry ...

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 ...