On February 14, a Russian drone hit the structure, which is called the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, because it is meant to ...

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 ...

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.

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

All three other nuclear reactors at Chernobyl have been shut down since 2000, but the plant still houses spent fuel and contaminated equipment that is slowly being dismantled over the course of a ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kyiv ...