9 Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement (NSC) contains a labyrinth of passages, suspended walkways, and stairs. Elevators will be used in the future, but are still being installed and tested.

Decades after Chernobyl disaster, ... The NSC is 354ft (108m) tall and 843ft (257m) wide, making it the largest mobile metal structure in the world. Why it’s necessary.

SSE Chernobyl NPP, the Ukrainian company that manages the former reactor, called the area, ... (NSC) is in full working operation. Currently, the NSC controls part of the confinement.

The massive structure -- called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) -- will seal off Chernobyl's reactor Unit 4. In 1986, an explosion inside the reactor led to the world's worst civilian nuclear accident.

The NSC was erected over a pre-existing protective shell called the sarcophagus, which is there to prevent the release of radioactive contaminants from the reactor, which exploded in 1986.

International Atomic Energy Agency staff at the Chernobyl site say "radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable" after a drone was reported to have struck the roof of ...

Chernobyl now a tourist zone. Construction of the NSC, in the shadow of Reactor 4, started in late 2010 and is expected to be finished in late 2017.

The New Safe Confinement (NSC) is worth more than a billion euro and was designed to secure reactor four into the next century.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, causing the worst nuclear accident in history. Now, thirty-five years later, smoldering nuclear “embers ...

A sign warning of radiation, taken in Pripyat, Ukraine, April 2017. OVER 30 years after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, the city of Pripyat is exactly as it was the day it was evacuated.