Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago. Many of ...

From soil and water, radioactive materials also moved into plants and animals, which posed risks to human health ...

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where researchers are fighting to protect the area and ensure it remains safe amid the co ...

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