Inspectors now warn that the vast steel shelter over Chernobyl’s ruined reactor has suffered critical damage after an alleged drone strike, stripping away a key layer of protection that the world has ...

The New Safe Confinement has a span of 257 metres, a length of 162 metres, a height of 108 metres and a total weight of 36,000 tonnes and was designed for a lifetime of about 100 years. It was built ...

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, according to ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine (AP) — Two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, separated by nearly four decades, have reignited fears about nuclear safety amid ongoing conflict. The first explosion ...

An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month. Serhii Tarakanov, Director General of SSE Chornobyl ...

(via Kyle Hill) On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to contain and eventually decommission the exploded Reactor 4 at ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Although the immediate attack didn't pose a radiological threat, a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the ...

In a nutshell: A massive containment structure meant to keep the Chernobyl ruins stable for decades may now be critically compromised. New IAEA inspections point to war-related damage that could ...