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

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...

Thousands have succumbed to radiation-related illnesses, including various forms of cancer, since the 1986 disaster ...

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside.

Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.

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

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...

The five-part series will air nightly for free next week on Sky Mix to mark the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic tragedy.