The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and other regions.

Nuclear energy is witnessing a global revival 40 years after Chernobyl, driven by technological advancements and geopolitical factors, particularly in the Middle East.

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 drive away.

Wildlife is thriving again four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population.

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the

I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing and so modern.” Inspired by that first visit, she returned a few years later as “a big Soviet boss”,

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

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the area around Chernobyl remains largely uninhabited by people. But it is no longer empty. Nature without people Following the 1986 explosion, a 2,