More than three decades after the worst nuclear accident in history, workers are still scrambling to prevent the spread of radiation. On April 26, 1986, the core of a reactor opened at the Chernobyl ...

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.

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...

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

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

12:00, Wed, Apr 15, 2026 Updated: 12:06, Wed, Apr 15, 2026 It all started with the push of a simple button. The Chernobyl disaster – the worst nuclear accident in history, which occurred 40 years ago ...

"On April 26, 1986, the men who responded to Chernobyl thought they were fighting a fire. They weren’t. In this episode, we trace the human story of the disaster through the firefighters, reactor ...

As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

Inna Mitelman shares her powerful story of being a child during the Chernobyl disaster and how it shaped her life in ...