In April 1986, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place. The event occurred during a late-night safety test at the plant that was meant to simulate a station power failure. But this ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

Despite the Kremlin’s claims, Russian forces were likely indeed responsible for the Chernobyl strike. The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was reportedly struck by a Russian drone over ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant early on Friday, punching a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kyiv blamed ...

A view of the containment vessel that protects the remains of reactor number four at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and built to contain radiation, after a drone attack in Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl, located near Ukraine’s border with Belarus, has been a focal point of nuclear concerns since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops briefly seized the plant in early 2022 but ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

The containment arch protecting the remains of reactor No. 4 at the former Chernobyl power plant, after a drone attack, in Ukraine, on February 14, 2025. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP A Russian Shahed drone ...

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Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.