The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the the largest ever release of radioactive material into the ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

"Exactly 8 years ago, a new sarcophagus was moved over the old one covering the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

An explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 led to the worst ... of a 32,000-tonne dome around the radioactive reactor, funded at a cost of $1.5bn (£1.1bn) by more than 30 countries. Prof Corkhill now ...

The meltdown at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant occurred in the small hours of April 26, 1986 MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. More than 1.7 million people, living in Russia, have ...

All the latest updates on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat in Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, the plant's No. 4 reactor exploded in a devastating accident.

The area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the places being looked at as potential locations for Ukraine's planned future wave of small modular reactors. The former Chernobyl nuclear ...

"The permanent sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been officially handed ... to be in operation for 100 years. It cost 1.5 billion euros. According to the Ukrainian State ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found remarkable differences.