April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

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

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

Radiation is an odourless, invisible killer, with the potential to surge through the body and tear it apart on a cellular level, irreversibly damaging DNA. When reactor number four at the Chernobyl ...

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 ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

A woman who helped children in Belarus after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 40 years ago has recalled how the community came together to support them. The disaster happened at a power ...

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 ...

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, The Mirror visits Bala, Wales, where pollution from the horror blast caused years of upheaval for the peaceful farming community, and left a devastating leg ...