"The IAEA team at the Chernobyl site heard an explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl NPP, causing a fire," the IAEA said on ...

Chernobyl is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which began on April 26 1986 with the explosion of the number 4 reactor. The New Safe Confinement around the destroyed reactor was ...

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

Scientists might have been wrong about what caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a new study has claimed.. Rather than being triggered by what is commonly believed to have been a steam explosion ...

An explosion caused a fire overnight at the site of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday.

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...