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

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, still considered the world's worst nuclear accident. In 1986, ...

Nikolai, the turbine engineer, was married with two sons at the time of the accident. He returned to work at the plant and ...

Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the ...

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...

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

In April 1986, exactly 40 years ago, Tim Eggar was asleep at home when – for the first time in his four years in government – ...

Chernobyl 'biorobot liquidator' Sergei Belyakov has revealed how volunteering for nuclear clean-up damaged his health.

Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly targeting the site during Moscow's full-scale invasion, including in a strike last year ...

The five-part series will air nightly for free next week on Sky Mix to mark the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic tragedy.