On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant exploded. Today, the facility is covered ...

A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight his “first war” against radiation.

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

Concerns are mounting over the potential for another catastrophic nuclear incident as Russia persists in deploying drones and missiles along corridors close to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility ...

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. It comes four years into the ...

Decades of anti-nuclear protests in Germany, stoked by past accidents, had pressured successive governments to end using a technology that critics saw as unsafe and unsustainable. Germany switched off ...

The Greenpeace, an international environmental organisation founded in 1971, has warned of radioactivity risk at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its shell got damaged. The warning comes days ...