KIEV, Ukraine – Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era ...

.KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era ...

The existing sarcophagus on the Chernobyl nuclear power station has long been insecure. Now a new coffin is intended to ensure that the reactor remains safe for centuries. The official date for ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era ...

After four harrowing episodes featuring planet-threatening danger, excruciating deaths and unheralded heroics, HBO's "Chernobyl ... buried in concrete-cased lead coffins.

4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands encased in lead and concrete following the ... for Chernobyl—known by Ukrainians as “coffin money”. But with the country on the edge of default ...

A total of 31 firemen and workers died at Chernobyl. So radioactive were some of their bodies, they were buried in lead coffins with the lids welded shut. A World Health Organisation report ...

In the spring of 1986 the English language, and nearly every other, acquired a new word for catastrophe: Chernobyl ... ("zinky" alludes to the zinc coffins in which more than 15,000 Soviet ...