In February, a Russian drone strike damaged the new sarcophagus covering Chernobyl’s Reactor 4. As a result, several holes ...

On July 29, the Ukrainian company that manages the Chernobyl plant, SSE Chernobyl NPP, signed a $78 million contract with a construction company to take the sarcophagus apart by 2023.

The sarcophagus of reactor 4 remains damaged from a Russian drone attack. In February 2022, when Vladimir Putin's regime ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Chernobyl was not prepared to repel any army.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damaged sarcophagus that covers the destroyed 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside following a Russian drone ...

Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Cover Images A Russian drone attack struck the sarcophagus or radiation shelter covering the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on ...

In short, the sarcophagus would have collapsed at one point or another; Soviet scientists only expected it to last 20-30 years at most. Having automatic monitoring systems offline if we were still ...

In the rain, the sarcophagus, the 10-story steel-and-concrete box heroically constructed over Reactor 4, leaks like a radioactive sieve into groundwater that drains in the Pripyat River, which ...

The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

The Chernobyl sarcophagus, built in just over six months on the orders of panicked Soviet authorities who had remained silent for days before even acknowledging the accident, was not designed to ...

MOSCOW, April 22 -- The concrete and steel sarcophagus containing the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine is in danger of collapsing, Russia's atomic energy minister said today.

Japan must cool and isolate the nuclear fuel at its crippled atomic power station before trying to encase the reactors in a Chernobyl-style concrete sarcophagus, nuclear experts believe.