Chernobyl is often presented as evidence that wildlife can flourish in radioactive landscapes.

RT speaks to Chernobyl liquidators, doctors, scientists, archivists, and residents of the Belarusian exclusion zone. The Chernobyl disaster remains one of the defining technological catastrophes of ...

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

The Night That Never Ended Forty years have passed – but for many, the night of April 26, 1986, never truly ended. It began quietly. A test. A routine procedure inside a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chornobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

"I often wonder what my life could have looked like. My connection to Chernobyl remains, but it is only one part of who I am.

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

The events of 26 April, 1986, changed the lives of millions of Ukrainians, and people beyond Ukraine’s borders, when Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant underwent a catastrophic failure ...

Today marks 40 years since the worst nuclear accident in history, the explosion at Chernobyl. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was in the USSR, then one country. Now it's in northern Ukraine. The ...