In Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a giant protective shield is slowly being moved into place a couple of feet at a time. The concrete and steel arch is billed as the ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The incident ...

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...

The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A fire at the site was ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Radiation levels have not ...

Remember House Bill 6 and Larry Householder. Ohio’s current nuclear power industry is so successful that it bribed Republicans in the Ohio legislature to the tune of $60 million to put Ohioans on the ...

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to ...