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

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 ...

April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.

Kerry volunteers who have supported children affected by the Chernobyl disaster for decades were honoured at a ceremony ...

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 ...

Congenital heart defects, microcephaly, and more.