Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed attention to nuclear power and its future.

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just at the beginning of the story of Chernobyl.

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global safety standards decades later.

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious.

Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is inherently dangerous, but that totalitarian governments can't safely manage high-risk technologies.

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded

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