The International Atomic Energy Agency has outlined the scale of the damage caused by a drone strike and subsequent fires to ...

Around 30 people died from the immediate blast trauma of the reactor explosion and, while United Nations estimates that only ...

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident ...

“There is no room ... s nuclear sites.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian drone slammed into the shell covering the remains of Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 — the same ...

Four hundred-forty reactors ... Since Chernobyl, the absence of high-profile accidents and concerns about global warming has helped soften attitudes on nuclear power. CFR’s 2009 world opinion ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in what is now Ukraine, exploded during a late-night safety test gone wrong. The blast released radioactive material ...

A late-night safety check at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spiraled out of control. A surge of energy blew the reactor open while blasting radioactive material across Europe.

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant ... the radioactive remains of crippled reactor number four that exploded when ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power ... the reactor was supposed to shut down for planned maintenance. Due to restrictions of the control room ...

Ukraine continues to look for ways to repair the Chernobyl nuclear ... radioactive remains of a reactor that was the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.