Chernobyl’s protective shield built disaster can no longer contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster after being ...

Temporary repairs are planned in 2026 to pave the way for permanent restoration, the United Nations agency said.

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost ...

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a ...

Inspectors now warn that the vast steel shelter over Chernobyl’s ruined reactor has suffered critical damage after an alleged ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...

UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) noted that the New Safe Confinement (NSC) was “severely damaged ...

The catastrophe that unfolded at Chernobyl in 1986 was supposed to be entombed behind layers of concrete and steel, a ...

The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster remains damaged, but so far, radiation levels outside the plant have not ...