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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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