Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the ...

In 1986 the Chernobyl Nuclear plant was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, but future disaster ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike damaged the shell and briefly started a fire.

An alleged Russian drone has hit the shield containing the contaminated materials at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency said its team monitoring the site heard an explosion coming from the confinement ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement ...

After an apparent drone strike, there is an urgent need to patch the protective shell that covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The 2.1 billion euro ($3.7 billion) outer shell structure, completed in 2019 and known as the New Safe Confinement, encloses the original concrete shelter, known as the "sarcophagus", that was ...

The first protective Sarcophagus was built in 1986 ... built in cooperation with Ukraine and funded by multiple countries, cost €1.5 billion (approximately $2 billion). Weighing 36,000 tons, the ...