Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

A group of former cleanup workers who returned to Chernobyl ahead of the 40th anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster, ...

RT speaks to Chernobyl liquidators, doctors, scientists, archivists, and residents of the Belarusian exclusion zone. The Chernobyl disaster remains one of the defining technological catastrophes of ...

A memorial sign honoring the feat of the liquidators was unveiled in Gomel on the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster returned to the site 40 years after the tragedy, reflecting on their experiences and ...

A memorial took place in Minsk at the plaque dedicated to V.I. Ignatenko on 24 April. The event featured Emergencies Minister ...

Residents of the region continue to battle health and environmental issues from the April 26, 1986, disaster as conflict ...

Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of ...

Liquidators return to Chernobyl to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, sharing personal stories and ...

People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation ...

Moldova's President Maia Sandu and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy take park in a memorial ceremony at the alley of ...

Chernobyl and Fukushima have left a tainted legacy in a no-man’s land between radioactive dirt and an immaculate landscape of state denial, where ‘acceptable risk’ is nothing more than a euphemism for ...