For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident. They tell Alex Croft about the day that their lives were changed forever

Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of the explosion that had just occurred. The next day, she…

Four decades ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen. Today, some of the world’s leading nuclear experts warn Alex…