Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

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

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 ...

Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

A man lay flowers at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in Slavutych on 25 April 2026.

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.