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

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

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 ...

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...

RUSSIAN missiles flying near to the Chernobyl nuclear plant are risking a “major accident”, Ukraine has said. A top state ...

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, documenting its lasting impacts on the environment ...

Forty years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its exclusion zone has become an unintentional wildlife sanctuary, with species from wolves to rare eagles thriving in the absence of humans.

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...