The delegation, which included members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's nuclear safety department, ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

More than 400 people have been working in shifts since the damage was caused to the giant shelter structure covering the area of Chernobyl's unit 4. International Atomic Energy Agency experts report ...

Russia has a further three dozen. Each could blanket the globe with atomic radiation, as has Chernobyl Unit 4 since it exploded on April 26, 1986. The still-hot Chernobyl core could explode yet again.

Unit 4 at Chernobyl – near Ukraine’s border with Belarus – exploded in 1986, sparking a radioactive disaster. The reactor was later encased in a concrete and steel sarcophagus. The ...

Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Svitlana Hrynchuk showed the Shelter arch at the Chornobyl nuclear ...

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is the site of the world’s first level 7 nuclear energy accidents, when Reactor 4 suffered a power surge resulting in steam explosions and a meltdown on April ...

Several times in March 2022, the power lines from Kyiv to Chernobyl were cut, which shut down the cooling system on the plant's nuclear waste containment unit and threatened to cause a new meltdown.