The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a ...

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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 ...

that the leader of Inverclyde Council once described it as Scotland's Chernobyl - comparing the estate to the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, which has been uninhabitable since the 1986 nuclear disaster.

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. The drone hit Chernobyl early Friday, creating a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire. Kyiv blamed Russia for the attack. The Kremlin has denied ...

Cancel anytime. In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damaged sarcophagus that covers the destroyed fourth reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside ...

the director of the Chernobyl nuclear plant who oversaw the disaster and the initial response efforts. Bryukhanov was fired within weeks of the April 1986 explosion near the city of Pripyat in the ...