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 ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and ...

Ukraine’s president lashed out at Russia, accusing it of “nuclear terrorism,” as Kyiv observed the 40th anniversary of the explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, the world’s worst ...

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 ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then... 40 years after families survived the Chernobyl ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

Forty years after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, former residents are still living with its consequences. Klavdia Omelchenko was among those evacuated from Pripyat after the ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released massive radiation and affected millions. Dozens died immediately, with thousands more linked to long-term effects. The area remains restricted as cleanup continues ...

LONDON — More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, cows far from the accident site still produce milk with dangerous levels of radiation, children still drink it and the ...