What once seemed unthinkable — strikes on nuclear facilities and other hazardous sites — has now become reality,” said Oleh ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...