FILE PHOTO: Children's beds are seen in a kindergarten near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the abandoned city of Pripyat KYIV (Reuters) - The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was ...

A Russian drone has struck the vast protective shell covering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine said on Friday. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...

The HBO mini-series “Chernobyl,” which has its finale Monday night, mostly focuses on the internal effort by the Soviet Union to first cover up, then work to contain, the fallout from the nuclear ...

A Russian drone strike has damaged the massive protective shield covering Chernobyl's infamous nuclear reactor, the BBC reports. The overnight attack caused a fire at the facility that houses the ...

A Russian drone hit the steel shelter covering part of the Chernobyl nuclear plant on the morning of Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said that a “high-explosive warhead” ...

The last cubic metre of concrete needed for the foundation of the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl has been poured, State Specialised Enterprise Chernobyl NPP said on 15 August. The last cubic metre ...

A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at the Chernobyl site in Ukraine, the second such milestone for the New Safe Confinement project. A steel arch weighing 3800 tonnes is being lifted at ...

At 1:23 in the morning of April 26, 1986, there was a disastrous chain reaction in the core of Chernobyl reactor number four. NPR's Melissa Block... Covering the Chernobyl Crisis At 1:23 in the ...

KYIV (Reuters) – The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released documents to ...