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

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

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 ...

People streamed in from different parts of the city to place candles on a large radiation hazard symbol as they marked the ...

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

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

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

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

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

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

The screening was organized by the Belarusian diplomatic mission as part of events dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.