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 had to be rushed to a hospital unit where the staff would only approach her in full protective gear.

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…

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…

In an interview with Le Monde, historian Galia Ackerman describes what happened before the Chernobyl disaster and the incompetence of the Soviet regime, which deliberately hid the…