Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

Chernobyl's past and present collide as residents and workers reflect on the 1986 disaster and Russia's recent invasion.

Russia’s invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, “We ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where researchers are fighting to protect the area and ensure it remains safe amid the co ...

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers and ...

Human beings love exclusivity. We crave something that not everyone can access. It’s why many people will pay good money for ...

As Moscow continues to target Ukraine's power grid, risking another nuclear accident, Ukrainians have marked the 40th ...

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The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...