In reality, Chernobyl is less abandoned than outsiders might imagine. The ill-fated nuclear reactor and the containment shell around it require ongoing maintenance. The area as a whole is ...

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

According to its statement, IAEA was alerted to the explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor four of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

A photograph from April 2023 shows a building containing one of the nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. Ukraine said a Russian drone struck the protective containment shell of the plant in Kyiv in an ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl ... the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster, which was one of ...