Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with experts cautioning that a critical containment structure is at risk of collapse, ...

AFP journalists Genya Savilov and Maryke Vermaak visited Chernobyl for the 40th anniversary of the 1986 disaster. In February 2025, a Russian drone strike damaged its protective shield. Agence ...

Alarming reports come out of Ukraine and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a massive shield covering the nuclear reactor from the 1986 disaster ...

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency made a troubling announcement on Friday: Chernobyl's protective shield is no longer working. The containment hangar was meant to seal in radioactive ...

The 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl was the world’s worst ever nuclear power plant incident – Copyright AFP Glody MURHABAZI Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine ...

The confinement facility “lost its primary safety functions” after a Russian drone strike in February, nuclear watchdog says. A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct ...