They built a $1.7 billion steel tomb to contain Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, but inside the New Safe Confinement, a terrifying ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine (AP) — Two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, separated by nearly four decades, have reignited fears about nuclear safety amid ongoing conflict. The first explosion ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...

(via Kyle Hill) On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to contain and eventually decommission the exploded Reactor 4 at ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine (AP) — The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation ...