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

Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands encased in lead and concrete following ... for Chernobyl—known by Ukrainians as “coffin money”. But with the country on the edge ...

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 ...

Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and ...

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 ...

In 2007, scientists studying Chernobyl’s blighted landscape ... wood and glue typically used in coffins. “Our current burial processes lead to material depletion, soil pollution and CO2 ...

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 ...

Chernobyl works particularly well when those stories are documented. Any time you’re dealing with a narrative where people aren’t just put into traditional coffins but their nearly liquid ...