Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest nuclear disaster. However, it could have been worse had it not been for the ...

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 ...

The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the surroundings ...

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 ...

There may be a view that the nuclear disaster is an event from long ago and no longer poses a threat, but the reality is very ...

The best and most chilling adaptions of the Chernobyl disaster appeared on HBO Max in a five part miniseries simply called ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...