Funds for repairing the massive structure covering the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Reactor No. 4 have not yet been fully ...

While there is no immediate danger from Chernobyl, Renaud-Basso said the damage needs to be fixed before 2030. Without ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the New Safe Confinement structure that was built to shield the damaged Reactor No. 4, is seen on Monday, April 6, 2026, from the abandoned town of Pripyat, ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment building ...

Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded ...

A giant steel structure built to contain what remains of Chernobyl's Reactor 4 needs to be fixed.

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. From a 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to a grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. With Chernobyl's nuclear radiation raining down, Communist party officials dithered, delayed and hid the ...