PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

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

‘I miss our land. Chernobyl broke us’: The families who lost their homes after world’s worst nuclear accident

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...

Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in ...

Putin could cause the next Chernobyl through reckless strikes on nuclear plants, experts warn

Four decades ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen. Today, ...

Worst ever nuclear disaster Chernobyl caused by pressing one wrong button

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting inside': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later

Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of ...

Eerie photos of abandoned Chernobyl plant show lights still glowing on nuclear control panel: ‘Incredibly sad’

Photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity—but it faces new threats from Russia's invasion

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

Science history: Chernobyl nuclear power plant melts down, bringing the world to the brink of disaster — April 26, 1986

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to ...

PHOTO ESSAY: Chernobyl liquidators return to where they faced an invisible enemy

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

I was a Chernobyl ‘liquidator’ sent to clean up nuclear disaster zone 40 years ago – only a few of us are still alive

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

How Chernobyl exclusion zone was cut off from world to become ‘giant roach motel’… & the ghost residents who never left

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...