On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

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

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 ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's unit 4 was destroyed in the April 1986 accident (you can read more about it in ... It still contains the molten core of the reactor and an estimated 200 tonnes of ...

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

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 ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... which was placed on the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster. Both shells seek to prevent radiation leaks. The Ukrainian Emergency Service ...

A view of the containment vessel that protects the remains of reactor number four at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and built to contain radiation, after a drone attack in Chernobyl ...

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 ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ... on the plant's fourth reactor soon after the 1986 ...