If Trump bombs Iran's Fordo nuclear enrichment site, the main risk would be from the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb itself rather than radiation or chemicals.

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert ...

As Ukraine marks the 39th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, engineers are struggling to find ways to repair the complex's protective shield ...

A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month. The fire started by the drone burned for weeks. How a Cheap Drone Punctured ...

Following the deadly Chernobyl Power Plant meltdown in 1986, a structure, aptly named the sarcophagus was erected around the reactor as construction took place over 206 days.

KYIV — A drone struck an encasement building that houses the destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident — causing a fire but ...

It was built at one side of the reactor building and slid over the sarcophagus in 2016. At the time of my visit, Novarka was only just beginning to set up and the existing management team took me ...

A contract has been signed between SSE Chernobyl NPP and construction company Ukrbudmontazh for the creation of infrastructure for the early dismantling of the Shelter Object. This structure, widely ...

The original shelter is now within the New Safe Confinement (Image: CHNPP) He was speaking during a meeting of backers of the International Cooperation Account for Chernobyl, which was established in ...

World ‘Very dangerous’: Chernobyl marks anniversary amid war. The road toward Chernobyl is still littered with Russian soldiers’ discarded ration boxes and occasional empty bullet shells.

Although Chernobyl is not an active power plant, the sarcophagus above the reactor that exploded nearly 36 years ago needs to be maintained to avoid further radiation leaks.

The site of the Chernobyl power plant sits in an exclusion zone with a near 19-mile radius, ... building what was known as the "sarcophagus" completed around November 1986.