Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Marking 30 years of Chernobyl disaster in numbers: Nearly 600,000 liquidators, €2 billion and countless deaths

A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world's worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986

Ukraine marks 26th anniversary of Chernobyl

Ukraine's president thanked donors for financing the construction of a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster.