The structure that was hit prevents radiation leaks at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, and while the damage is significant, radiation levels have not increased so far.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine — (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the ...

The event of what took place at a nuclear power station on the edge of the Baltic Sea were hidden for some 14 years. They could well have remained hidden forever had communism in East Germany not ...

Fighting and shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have intensified calls from the UN to access the facility to try to avoid a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl.

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. A Ukrainian air defense ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure ...