These attacks have extended to nuclear sites. In February, a Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear ...

The delegation, which included members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's nuclear safety department, came a month after Chernobyl unit 4's giant shelter was damaged by a drone ...

Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws ...

A four-alarm fire broke out at a warehouse in Abington Township, Pennsylvania – about 15 miles north of Philadelphia – late on Monday, February 17, prompting a shelter-in-place order, local ...

A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...

(Image: Rosatom) Leningrad units 1 and 2 - both 1000 MWe RBMK units - shut down in 2018 and 2020, respectively. As the first two of the plant's four RBMK-1000 units shut down, new VVER-1200 units ...