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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The remnants of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) A Russian drone attack caused significant damage to the radiation shelter of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

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 ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

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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 ...