Marking 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, new accounts reveal the perilous evacuation of Pripyat, while scientists highlight the zone’s unexpected wildlife resurgence and advances in radiation ...

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

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

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

Chernobyl 'biorobot liquidator' Sergei Belyakov has revealed how volunteering for nuclear clean-up damaged his health.

In April 1986, exactly 40 years ago, Tim Eggar was asleep at home when – for the first time in his four years in government – ...

Forty years on, former under-secretary of state for foreign affairs Tim Eggar recalls how the nuclear disaster plunged the ...

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...