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 a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell over the damaged nuclear reactor in Chernobyl was one of the biggest structures ...

Greenpeace Ukraine raises alarm over serious damage to the sarcophagus in Chernobyl after a drone attack. The damage includes ...

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 ...

Emergency crews were seen scaling the roof to repair the damage after a fire briefly broke out ... Federation to the security conference". Chernobyl was famously the site of the world's worst ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which maintains a presence at Chernobyl, said Friday’s blast struck at 1:50 a.m. It posted pictures of a small fire burning on the protective cover.