Greenpeace Ukraine raises alarm over serious damage to the sarcophagus in Chernobyl after a drone attack. The damage includes ...

Greenpeace Ukraine raises alarm over significant damage to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl following a drone attack. The damage ...

The corium at Chernobyl consists of uranium dioxide fuel, zircaloy cladding, concrete, and the serpentinite that had been packed around the reactor to serve as thermal insulation. Analysis has ...

A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

Pavel Lukashov spent four and a half months at Chernobyl and helped with the construction of the concrete sarcophagus that would eventually enclose the destroyed reactor. Today, at age 49 ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... The shell was built in 2016 over another heavy concrete containment structure, which was placed on the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster.

A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive ... X appearing to show damage to the giant shield, made of concrete and steel, which covers the remains of the reactor ...

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 ... this deadly mass fused uranium, steel, concrete, and sand into a hardened, wrinkled form—earning its eerie name from its cracked, elephant-like ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ... The shell was built in 2016 over another heavy concrete containment structure, which was placed on the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster.