“Timely and comprehensive restoration remains essential to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety,” warned IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi after a February 14 ...

Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) facility may have been compromised after a drone strike in February 2025, according to reports. The strike was likely an accident, but the drone carried a ...

(CNN) — 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, ...

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 ...

The New Safe Confinement was completed in 2016 - Copyright AFP - The New Safe Confinement was completed in 2016 - Copyright AFP - The site of Ukraine’s defunct ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

According to head of the Atominfo research center Alexander Uvarov, forest fires that periodically occurred in the Ukrainian segment of the Chernobyl exclusion zone may have more significant radiation ...

(CNN) — 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, ...

The site of Ukraine's defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant -- partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown -- lost power on Wednesday after Russia shelled a nearby substation, Kyiv said. The UN's atomic energy ...