Chernobyl is often described as the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of $180 billion (£133 billion) ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

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

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

Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...

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

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

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

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

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