Chernobyl's "sarcophagus" NSC was built to house the melted-down number 4 reactor immediately following the 1986 disaster. An even more enormous secondary outer shell of steel and concrete, added ...

An armed drone has hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. While the drone's warhead briefly started a fire, radiation ...

An alleged Russian drone has hit the shield containing the contaminated materials at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern ...

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Although Chernobyl has left a devastating legacy across Europe’s former communist bloc, including East Germany, it is a crumb of comfort that it took place at the bitter end of the Cold War in an area ...

He was born in Moscow, Russia in April 1997, 11 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. This nuclear meltdown began on April 26, 1986 and led to the largest release of ...

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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the attack on Chernobyl "clearly shows" the ... what was left of the reactor shortly after the meltdown. Made of steel and designed to prevent any ...

Emergency responders worked to “eliminate the consequences” of the February 14 drone strike on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on February 18, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...