An alleged Russian drone has hit the shield containing the contaminated materials at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

The black fungus, known as Cladosporium sphaerospermum, has been found to not only survive but thrive in one of the most ...

Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an explosion expelled 400 times ...

Russia has denied involvement in the attack. According to the New York Times, Zelenskyy said the explosion at Chernobyl showed that Russia does not intend to end the war and Putin "is definitely ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

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 ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear ... at the site heard an explosion and were informed that a ...

The IAEA, which has a team stationed at the site, did not assign blame but confirmed that its observers heard an explosion.

Here’s what else to know: Chernobyl blast: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said a Russian drone had struck a building at the Chernobyl plant north of Kyiv that sits over its damaged ...

Chornobyl Liquidators - which has just released onto Xbox and PlayStation - is an incredibly realistic depiction of the Chornobyl disaster.

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

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