In reality, Chernobyl is less abandoned than outsiders might imagine. The ill-fated nuclear reactor and the containment shell around it require ongoing maintenance. The area as a whole is ...

a nuclear specialist at Greenpeace who visited the damaged reactor at Chernobyl after the drone attack. “It’s an enormous intellectual achievement to build something that could protect Europe ...

According to its statement, IAEA was alerted to the explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor four of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl ... the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster, which was one of ...