Firefighters trying to prevent the Chernobyl nuclear disaster received more than a lethal dose of radiation in less than five minutes ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

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 power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a poignant tribute to those who gave their lives and were affected by the Chernobyl power plant explosion.

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

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 ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

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 ...