When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure, is a defunct facility in Ukraine which was the site of the world's worst civil ...

A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...

The containment arch protecting the remains of reactor No. 4 at the former Chernobyl power plant, after a drone attack, in Ukraine, on February 14, 2025. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP A Russian Shahed drone ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement dome, designed to contain radiation from exploded reactor 4, was struck by a Russian drone ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. The drone hit Chernobyl early Friday, creating a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire. Kyiv blamed Russia for the attack. The Kremlin has denied ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a fungus is absorbing deadly radiation. A black fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum has been found growing ...