The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

The protective structure over Chernobyl’s ruined Reactor 4 needs substantial restoration because of war-related damage, the International Atomic ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

As more and more countries move away from fossil fuels and towards alternative energy sources, many are reexamining their approach towards nuclear energy. Six years after the Fukushima nuclear ...

When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat.

Scientists monitoring radiation levels at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are unable to access their laboratories and instruments because Russian troops control the plant, warns a worker who escaped ...

Ukraine has raised the alarm after drone strikes disrupted power at the decommissioned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, prompting warnings of a wider nuclear safety crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

Chernobyl unable to stop radiation leak after Russian drone strike, UN watchdog warns - The strike pierced the power plant’s ...