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

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and EVGENIY MALOLETKA CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life ...

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

The explosion of Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, caused an unprecedented nuclear accident, releasing ...

I first visited Chernobyl in 2016, 30 years after the explosion at Reactor Four. I expected silence and scarcity – a lifeless place, defined by radiation. Instead, I found beavers swimming beneath a ...

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