Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...

Jordan Dunbar explores the human stories behind the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in powerful BBC World Service productions ...

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How the Soviet dream of Pripyat became the Chernobyl disaster ...

A landmark season marking four decades since the Chernobyl disaster, brings documentary, drama, survivor testimony, and ...

Chernobyl 'biorobot liquidator' Sergei Belyakov has revealed how volunteering for nuclear clean-up damaged his health.

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?

US paediatric heart surgeon William Novick says Adi Roche’s role in saving Chernobyl children has been ‘incalculable’ ...

Bumper cars sit idle at an overgrown amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, a town left abandoned following the nearby 1986 ...

In April 1986, exactly 40 years ago, Tim Eggar was asleep at home when – for the first time in his four years in government – ...