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 ...

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

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.

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

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight ...

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

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

April 26 will mark 40 years since the Chernobyl explosion - but what is it like for those heading to the historic site as tourists?

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. PARIS — The rusted ...