IT was known as the Stairway To Hell – a suffocating chamber leading to the roof of Chernobyl’s reactor four, which had been ...

Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.

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

Ukrainians gathered on Saturday to honour the victims and clean-up crews of the biggest nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl, during a ceremony held in the northern town of Prypyat. Prypyat, now a ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

Jordan Dunbar explores the human stories behind the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in powerful BBC World Service productions ...

My dad turned 9 years old on the day of the Chernobyl disaster. Two years later, his father was sent to the city to clean up the contaminated area and manage the consequences of the catastrophe. He ...

The main matters that the state programs on Chernobyl topics paid attention to were social security of citizens, including ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...