Chernobyl disaster

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them.

A woman reflects on how Kent families helped children affected by the nuclear disaster 40 years ago.

Forty years on from the disaster, children affected by the fallout recall respite trips to the UK.

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.

John Beaumont carried out sex attacks during fake radiation examinations following the 1996 nuclear disaster.