Ukraine is building new border defenses with materials brought from outside the exclusion zone. The sarcophagus of reactor 4 ...

At Chernobyl, Building a Shelter for a Shelter The ruined Chernobyl nuclear facility still contains some 200 tons of radioactive fuel. A "sarcophagus" -- a steel and concrete shell built soon ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant's massive "sarcophagus," which protects its radioactive reactor, is being dismantled because it could collapse. When the nuclear reactor's core exploded during a ...

THE CONCRETE sarcophagus covering Chernobyl’s dangerously radioactive nuclear power plant is having to be taken down because it’s on the verge of collapsing in on itself. The structure … ...

Readers of the May/June 1996 Chernobyl special issue of the Bulletin, however, will note that there are still a number of questions about what exactly happened in the early days of the aftermath of ...

Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb. Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor. ... But 30 years later, the sarcophagus is crumbling, ...

The Chernobyl sarcophagus which has long contained the fissured reactor core is at risk of collapse, writes Claire Corkhill. The solution: build a pair of tracked arches 260m wide and 100m high, and ...

The most famous nuclear disaster site in the world is getting partially dismantled. Workers are taking down Chernobyl's "sarcophagus," once meant to keep the reactor's radioactive materials locked ...

Chernobyl's Radioactive Ruins Get a New Tomb. Thirty years after the disaster, a giant structure will replace the crumbling Soviet-era sarcophagus built to contain the site's radiation.

Chernobyl's "invisible" danger 06:09. Building the arch under these conditions is challenging enough. But some of the biggest obstacles have nothing to do with radiation.