Chernobyl, located in present day Ukraine, faced one of the biggest and widely known nuclear disasters in 1986.

Chernobyl tour agencies confirmed to ... the decommissioning staff,” though some things such as diagrams on the behavior of the reactor and aged wiring remained. (Presumably there is no graphite ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine – Workers have raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that eventually will cover the exploded nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl ...

In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine – A massive shelter has finally been installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world.

A few months after reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went up in toxic flames in 1986, it was encased in a concrete and steel "sarcophagus" to contain the radioactive material inside.

In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” Adam Higginbotham offers a thorough and readable account of one awful night in Ukraine and its lasting consequences. When a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Reactor Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant began to fail in the early hours of 26 April, 1986. Seven seconds after the operators activated the 20-second shut down system, there was a power ...

According to its statement, IAEA was alerted to the explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor four of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.