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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.

In an update on Thursday at 17:00 local time, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant operator said thermal imaging monitoring of the New Safe Confinement was continuing and parts of the exterior cut into ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

Despite the Kremlin’s claims, Russian forces were likely indeed responsible for the Chernobyl strike. The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was reportedly struck by a Russian drone over ...

Firefighters worked across the weekend to tackle smouldering roof insulation in the giant protective shelter which covers Chernobyl's unit 4 following the drone strike on Friday. Radiation levels in ...

When people hear “Chernobyl,” they often think of the 1986 nuclear disaster that led to mass evacuations. Yet, the region remains home to diverse wildlife, including dogs that have become a focus of ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

A Russian drone attack hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl’s destroyed reactor, causing a fire that has since been extinguished. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy termed it a ...

A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...

Fears of a nuclear incident in Ukraine rose to the surface on Friday when a drone armed with a warhead blasted through the protective outer shell of the melted-down reactor at Chernobyl ...