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 ...

There may be a view that the nuclear disaster is an event from long ago and no longer poses a threat, but the reality is very ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, sending a radioactive cloud across Europe and sparking global panic. Around 30 ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

Firefighters trying to prevent the Chernobyl nuclear disaster received more than a lethal dose of radiation in less than five ...

Forty years ago, a reactor taught the world what arrogance and opacity can do to atoms under pressure. Forty years on, the ...

"On April 26, 1986, the men who responded to Chernobyl thought they were fighting a fire. They weren’t. In this episode, we trace the human story of the disaster through the firefighters, reactor ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the ...