Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

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 ...

A Greenpeace report released Tuesday, April 14, 2026, states that the internal radiation shell at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station is at risk of an uncontrolled collapse. Damage to the ...

On July 6th, 1988, disaster struck! Once the pride of the North Seaturned into one of the deadliest man-made infernos in ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Al Jazeera’s Audrey MacAlpine was granted rare access to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster took place 40 years ago. Now, the reactor is at risk ...

Hundreds of ‌people were killed in June when an Air India plane to London crashed minutes after taking off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade ...

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or to Japanese “groupism.” Doing so is not only inaccurate or borderline racist ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

A special service was held in the heart of Bolton on Sunday to remember the lives lost in the Chornobyl disaster. The catastrophe that shook the world on April 26, 1986, has gone down in history as ...