The giant New Safe Confinement shelter over the remains of Chernobyl's unit 4 was damaged by a drone in February with an ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 NSC is a structure that was put in place in 2016 to protect the remains of the fourth reactor of what once was the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and it is meant to prevent the release of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian drone slammed into the shell covering the remains of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4 — the same one that exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing ...

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