Chernobyl's "sarcophagus" NSC was built to house the melted-down number 4 reactor immediately following the 1986 disaster. An even more enormous secondary outer shell of steel and concrete ...

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 ...

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans. In February a Russian drone put a hole in it.

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 ...

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 ...

“We’re getting closer and closer to possible disaster as attacks now continue on Chernobyl, and the war is going on in the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” he says ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began in ... and reports were lost when the Soviet Union broke up. After the disaster, an 18-mile radius known as the “Exclusion Zone” was ...

A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive material into the air, triggering a public health emergency across Europe. While the immediate disaster was mitigated and ...

The disaster led to the death of two workers ... of insects/worms that keep attracting scientists. Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has become an animal sanctuary.