The control levels of gamma radiation in the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant “were exceeded,” the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said in a statement.

Background Chernobyl Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 26 April 1986 - A routine 20-second shut down of the system seemed to be another test of the electrical equipment.

Beyond Chernobyl, there are concerns about the lasting environmental damage from the Russian invasion. Ukraine has 15 operational nuclear reactors, which accounts for more than half the country ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine -- "Did you drink last night?" Yuri, my chain-smoking guide, asks me as we head north out of Kiev to the world's most notorious nuclear plant. "If you have alcohol in your blood ...

Meanwhile, Chernobyl is developing long-term storage facilities for the debris that will be hacked out of reactor 4; and for more than 20,000 spent fuel canisters from the site's other reactors, a ...

Today Chernobyl continues to have social, economic, and cultural impacts on many communities and these effects are likely to last beyond the upcoming 30th anniversary.

Chernobyl's new sarcophagus took two decades to make. Bigger than Wembley Stadium and taller than the Statue of Liberty, it will seal in the entire disaster site for 100 years.

4 Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, and is now protected by a concrete sarcophagus and a metal cover, at Chernobyl, Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2023 (VOANEWS/Yan Boechat) ...

Chernobyl's stray dogs are 'genetically distinct' 40 years after the massive nuclear radiation leak, scientists find By Morgan McFall-Johnsen and Isobel van Hagen ...