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.

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

The best and most chilling adaptions of the Chernobyl disaster appeared on HBO Max in a five part miniseries simply called ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...

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 April 28, 1986, Swedish scientists detected high levels of radiation, bringing to light the reactor explosion that ...

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 ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.

Exactly 40 years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. But what would happen if it occurred in the UK today?

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chernobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.