The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is the site of the world’s first level 7 nuclear energy accidents, when Reactor 4 suffered a power ... from the reactor, workers couldn’t fully seal off ...

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 ...

Workers on the roof of the New Safe Confinement two ... It said the IAEA team at Chernobyl had reported multiple air raid alarms over the past week. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's unit 4 was ...

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 ...

There have been air raid alarms over the past week which have forced the suspension of work on the shelter structure ... well as machine gun fire earlier this week. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's ...

A Russian drone has hit the radiation shelter at the former Chernobyl ... in 1970 for workers at the plant. In the spring of 1984 a series of tests were carried out on reactor number four to ...

The outer shell that was hit is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. The inner layer was placed on the plant's fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster ...