Oleksandr Hryhorash, an inspector at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, warns about the world's inadequate response to ...

Oleksandr Hryhorash, an inspector at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, warns about the world's inadequate response to ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ...

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

Today the reactor is covered by a massive confinement shelter that was built to cover an aging sarcophagus ... Russia could set off a Chernobyl-style environmental disaster. Take a look inside.

The answer is geography: Chernobyl sits on the shortest ... A make-shift cover, or "sarcophagus," was built within six months of the disaster to cover the stricken reactor and protect the ...

In episode four of the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," Soviet officials assess the damage of a 1986 power-plant explosion, which released plumes of radioactive material into the air. The roof of the ...

returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 be made safe ...

Then, heavy-duty cranes inside the New Safe Confinement will take apart the sarcophagus. Chernobyl by the numbers The second task is waste management. According to the EBRD, there are more than ...

Approximately one year after the disaster ... Lukashov spent four and a half months at Chernobyl and helped with the construction of the concrete sarcophagus that would eventually enclose the ...

TASS/. More than 1.7 million people, living in Russia, have been exposed to radiation as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Russian emergencies ministry’s press service told TASS.