Anton Honchanka was one of thousands of people affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster who came to the UK.

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

Nearly 40 years after Italy abandoned nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is ...

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake. By Elena Gorokhova Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield more ...

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - - Some 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk ...

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their children.