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Chernobyl protective shield stopped working, can’t confine radiation after drone strikes, says IAEA

Chernobyl protective shield stopped working, can’t confine radiation after February drone strike: IAEA

December 07, 2025 3:23 pm

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located in the Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine, was one of the world's biggest nuclear plants at the time was a major power source in the then USSR.

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Looking back at the Chernobyl disaster, 38 years later: Who was responsible?

April 26, 2024 11:26 pm

In 1986, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, causing one of the worst nuclear disasters of all time. Till date, scholars debate around who exactly was to blame.

The Days review: Netflix's Fukushima mini-series lacks the artistry of Chernobyl

June 08, 2023 5:43 am

The Days review: Like the hulking symbol of arrogance at its centre, Netflix's mini-series about the Fukushima nuclear disaster also collapses under its own weight.

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

March 04, 2023 10:10 am

Now researchers can begin to look for alterations in the DNA

The 8 most underrated films of June and where to watch them: From Dakota Johnson's career-best performance to Jessie Buckley's bonkers horror movie

July 06, 2022 6:50 pm

From a harrowing new Netflix true-crime documentary to a creepy stalker thriller that fans of Alfred Hitchcock’s films will appreciate, here is a list of the most underrated films from June 2022.

Russian blunders in Chernobyl: ‘They came and did whatever they wanted.’

April 09, 2022 1:09 pm

Apparently undeterred by safety concerns, the Russian forces tramped about the grounds with bulldozers and tanks, digging trenches and bunkers.

'Untitled Project from Chernobyl': Rescued photographs show life before the nuclear disaster

April 04, 2022 11:23 am

The photographs include smiling faces of people, their holidays, wedding ceremonies, the birth of children and so on

Chernobyl site off power grid, generators on, say officials

March 09, 2022 11:24 pm

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the grid supplying electricity is damaged and called for a cease-fire to allow for repairs.

Explained: Why did Russian troops seize control of Chernobyl nuclear disaster site?

March 03, 2022 2:32 pm

Located around 16 km away from the city of Chernobyl and a little over 100 km away from Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, the power plant witnessed the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.

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Chernobyl encourages curious tourists to visit Lithuania

August 01, 2019 1:39 pm

Tourists who come to Lithuania to see the locations, first visit the KGB museum in downtown Vilnius where interrogation scenes were shot. They are taken to a Soviet-era district of gray condos built in the mid-1980s that look somewhat like Pripyat, a nuclear city that served the Chernobyl plant.