On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...

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 ...

The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...