Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...

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

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...

RUSSIAN missiles flying near to the Chernobyl nuclear plant are risking a “major accident”, Ukraine has said. A top state ...

On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the r ...

Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.

Russia has been launching drones and missiles on a flight path near the disused Chernobyl nuclear plant during attacks on ...

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...