The concrete and steel shell built to contain the ruins of Chornobyl’s reactor 4 was supposed to be the final word in sealing ...

Inspectors now warn that the vast steel shelter over Chernobyl’s ruined reactor has suffered critical damage after an alleged ...

The mission found the NSC’s primary safety systems had failed but confirmed no lasting damage to its structures or monitoring ...

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a ...

UN nuclear watchdog warns the shield in Ukraine was damaged in a Russian drone strike in February, and can no longer perform ...

Radiation levels have not increased outside the Chernobyl power plant, the Ukrainian site of the world’s worst-ever nuclear ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost ...

A Russian attack damaged the containment structure in February. The extent of the damage is enormous, as is now becoming ...

The IAEA has warned that the drone strike in February of this year has left Chernobyl’s shield unable to confine radiation.

A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function ...

The IAEA has warned that Chernobyl's protective dome has lost its main radiation containment function after a drone strike ...

A drone strike hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant in February - and while Ukraine blamed ...