(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.

The Night That Never Ended Forty years have passed – but for many, the night of April 26, 1986, never truly ended. It began quietly. A test. A routine procedure inside a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl ...

On April 26, 1986 — 40 years ago today — a reactor at a Soviet nuclear power station 80 miles from Kiev — now Kyiv, Ukraine — exploded. Much of the radioactive core was vaporized, thrown into the ...

There may be a view that the nuclear disaster is an event from long ago and no longer poses a threat, but the reality is very different ...

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 ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

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