The explosion has left the arch-shaped cover, which was placed on the plant's fourth reactor after the Chernobyl disaster, with a 314 square-foot gash. While there has been no rise in radiation ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

What do we know about the damage to the shelter? According to the operators of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) site, the arch-shaped New Safe Containment was struck at a height of 87 metres ...

Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst ... shelter with what appeared to be a small fire near the top of its vast arch. "The only country in the world that attacks such sites, occupies ...

An expert assessment of the damage to the New Safe Confinement Arch after the Russian drone attack on the Chornobyl NPP will ...

a vast steel and concrete arch, over the top of the old Soviet one. Engineers shut down the last functioning reactor at Chernobyl, number three, in December 2000. President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

The containment arch protecting the remains of reactor No. 4 at the former Chernobyl power plant, after a drone attack, in Ukraine, on February 14, 2025. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP A Russian Shahed drone ...

The Chernobyl No. 4 reactor exploded in April 1986 ... In 2019, construction was completed on the New Safe Confinement — a $1.7 billion arch-shaped steel structure that would house the destroyed ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

The breach at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was dangerous for many reasons, mainly because it jeopardized the safety of the protective shell covering Reactor No. 4.Credit... Supported by By ...