On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant exploded. Today, the facility is covered ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

Chernobyl Explosion: 40 years later, disaster still shapes nuclear safety The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.