A single drone strike has reopened global anxieties tied to one of history’s most dangerous nuclear sites. On February 14, 2025, a Geran-2–type drone struck the massive structure sealing Chernobyl’s ...

Ukraine has claimed that Russia launched an overnight drone attack on the Chernobyl site, that has 'significantly' damaged the radiation shelter in place to protect any nuclear leaks. However, Russia ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

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 Each day of war risks a ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...

The IAEA says Chernobyl’s main containment structure suffered severe damage in a February drone strike and no longer fully ...

A viral photograph on Reddit claimed to show one of the first photographs taken at Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The post claimed it was shot 14 ...

UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) noted that the New Safe Confinement (NSC) was “severely damaged ...

The mushrooms were at first thought to have come from Russia. — -- A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French ...

The risks of potential accidents at nuclear power plants are compared to the risks of other energy forms by a new OECD report for policymakers considering nuclear energy. The risks of potential ...

To the editor - Re: the Oct. 3 article, "Engineer exalts future of nuclear energy." Past president of the American Nuclear Society Alan Waltar has perhaps forgotten the 4,000 deaths directly ...

A new study has unraveled the mystery behind the lingering radioactivity in wild boars inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even decades after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident. In a recent ...