After the fall of communism, scientists examined Greifswald Power Plant’s four pressurized water reactors and deemed them as dangerous as Chernobyl’s. Helmut Hirsch of the Ecology Institute in ...

It was a solitary 10-foot pump that saved Germany from a nuclear meltdown on the scale of Chernobyl. A decade before the ...

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 ...

A view of the containment vessel that protects the remains of reactor number four at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and built to contain radiation, after a drone attack in Chernobyl ...

Several times in March 2022, the power lines from Kyiv to Chernobyl were cut, which shut down the cooling system on the plant's nuclear waste containment unit and threatened to cause a new meltdown.

The delegation, which included members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's nuclear safety department, ...

A Russian drone attack caused significant damage to the radiation shelter of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday. Chornobyl was the ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine — (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the ...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators ...

The protective cover encasing the leaking Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been damaged by a Russian drone, CCTV appears to show. The drone destroyed the plant’s fourth power unit during an ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure ...