Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

Reactor number four at Chernobyl, a then-Soviet nuclear facility near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded on April 26, 1986, and emitted more than 100 radioactive elements into the atmosphere.

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

On 26 April, 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years ...

When you think of Chernobyl, it's likely the image that comes to mind will evoke a sense of fear: dystopian abandoned buildings, radioactive waste strewn haphazardly and not a soul in sight. Despite ...