Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Although the immediate attack didn’t pose a radiological threat, a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the ...

A multibillion-dollar dome built around the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was badly damaged last year after a Russian drone strike blew a hole in it, sparking a fire and plenty of alarm.

A drone hit the protective shell around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in February A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Vladimir Putin's "murderous" bombardment of the structure safeguarding Ukraine from a second Chernobyl catastrophe could disperse nuclear particles and "ramp up" cancer rates among children, a ...

VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France -- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) are discussing a major effort to repair damage to the protective shelter at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with costs ...

More than three decades after the worst nuclear accident in history, workers are still scrambling to prevent the spread of radiation. On April 26, 1986, the core of a reactor opened at the Chernobyl ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that the New Safe Confinement structure at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer fulfills its radiation containment role following a ...

The Greenpeace, an international environmental organisation founded in 1971, has warned of radioactivity risk at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its shell got damaged. The warning comes days ...

I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing and so modern.” Inspired by that first visit, she returned a few years ...