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.

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

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

These photos will stop you in your tracks.

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

In 1986, a routine safety test inside Reactor 4 in Pripyat turned into one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The ...

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

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.