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.

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but persistent radiation keeps it central to safety research and disaster memory.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a poignant tribute to those who gave their lives and were affected by the Chernobyl power plant explosion.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...