The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, is known as the British Chernobyl and now housing just four residents who refuse to leave their homes, despite council pressure

Mykhaylo Khrushchenko was 34 and working as the director of the food processing manufacture that served Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 when his life changed forever

Russian troops ‘set up camp, fished and dug defensive positions six miles from power plant’

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst ever nuclear disaster was unleashed after Chernobyl's Reactor Number Four exploded - dispersing deadly radioactive material into the atmosphere and surrounding area

As Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine rumbles on, fears are growing among Chernobyl survivors about another nuclear disaster which would cause mayhem for Europe and the world

Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly laying flowers at a monument for victims. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used the day to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of…

Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is using the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid his country’s war with Russia

The Greens dubbed them ‘floating Chernobyls’. Hyperbole, perhaps, but experts say there are real reasons to fear the nuclear submarines.