Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

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 ...

Liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster returned to the site 40 years after the tragedy, reflecting on their experiences and ...

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 ...

Video. Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned ...

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 ...

Radiation risk can be measured, understood and controlled in ways that keep people safe, including from contaminated foods.