April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...

A four-part Nat Geo documentary traces the explosion, cover-up and lasting legacy of the nuclear plant's destruction in ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...

When reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant exploded, debris emanated radiation at a level of 10,000 roentgens per ...