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

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

Professor Jim Smith in the Chernobyl control room of Reactor 3. Credit: Jemma Cox. Professor Jim Smith was a Green Party ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, documenting its lasting impacts on the environment ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the lasting impact of the Chernobyl disaster, documenting the silence, sacrifice, ...

Despite repair works, the confinement function of its safety shell “could not be fully restored”. Read more at ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...