Svetlana Alexievich is Belarus’ only Nobel Laureate – but the exiled journalist’s work is suppressed within her own country.

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...

A man lay flowers at a memorial dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in ...

The disaster that struck at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, and the dogs and their offspring who survived, ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

Climate Question host Jordan Dunbar has just visited the most contaminated place in the world for a BBC World Service ...

Channel 5’s new anniversary documentary Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle has been issued a trigger warning for 'easily ...

Sunday (April 26) marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Soviet Ukraine. Thousands of ...

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

US paediatric heart surgeon William Novick says Adi Roche’s role in saving Chernobyl children has been ‘incalculable’ ...

Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, Valerii, the first worker to die in the nuclear meltdown at ...