Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

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

A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...

Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...