An engineer by training, Gubaryev had covered science for the paper for 10 years while also writing plays and a score of books. His experience at Chernobyl prompted him to write the play Sarcophagus, ...

"Exactly eight years ago, a new sarcophagus was slid over the old one, covering the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant," reads the Napromieniowani.pl profile on Facebook.

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

Then, heavy-duty cranes inside the New Safe Confinement will take apart the sarcophagus. Chernobyl by the numbers The second task is waste management. According to the EBRD, there are more than ...

It is based on interviews with Chernobyl staff by third parties rather than the author himself, and the sense of drama here is often buried under a sarcophagus of background detail and quotes from ...

In 2011, the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the sarcophagus will be replaced with ... that tore off the exterior walls of the containment building as well as a partial core meltdown.

Alla Kravchuk, the daughter of a former Chernobyl engineer, returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of ...