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 ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

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

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — A group of liquidators, who played a crucial role in the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, returned to the site ahead of the 40th anniversary of the explosion that ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned to the site. View on euronews ...

Video. Ukrainians in Slavutych on Sunday honoured the men and women whose mission it was to clean up the worst nuclear ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...