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

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

A group of former cleanup workers who returned to Chernobyl ahead of the 40th anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Cleanup and recovery efforts have ...

Liquidators return to Chernobyl to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, sharing personal stories and ...

Nuclear-weapons risks are back — and we need to act like it A test of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...

Stanislav Tolumnyi, 65, left, and Mykola Chudak, 66, walk with fellow workers who helped clean up contamination from the 1986 ...

A service will be held in Bolton town centre on April 26 to remember those who lost their lives in the Chernobyl disaster ...

Japan will begin using 6 cubic meters of soil removed during cleanup after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in flowerbeds at ...