April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, still considered the world's worst nuclear accident. In 1986, ...

IT was known as the Stairway To Hell – a suffocating chamber leading to the roof of Chernobyl’s reactor four, which had been ...

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

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

New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...

Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.

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

1. The immense steel arc of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) towers above surrounding industrial structures as Chernobyl’s Category 1 specialist in public and press relations, Hanna Pidhaina, surveys ...

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.

The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...