PHOTO ESSAY: Chernobyl liquidators return to where they faced an invisible enemy

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

PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...
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Inside Chernobyl's Nuclear Exclusion Zone: 5 Rare Scenes You've Likely Never Heard About

Most stories about Chernobyl circle the same familiar symbols: the Ferris wheel, the empty apartments, the silence hanging over Pripyat. The stronger version of this story lives in real scenes that ...

Inside the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 40 years on: ‘We’ll be lucky to be alive tomorrow’

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...