On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

Fortunately, thyroid cancer is a very treatable disease, so few of the 2,000 who have developed it as a result of Chernobyl have died. Professor Dillwyn Williams, from the Strangeways Research ...

"Another 15 metres [50ft] to the side and there would have been a radiation accident," Hryhoriy Ishchenko, chief of the agency that manages the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, told reporters ...