The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...
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.
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious nuclear accident.
The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...
Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
Radiation is an odourless, invisible killer, with the potential to surge through the body and tear it apart on a cellular level, irreversibly damaging DNA. When reactor number four at the Chernobyl ...