TASS/. The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus), constructed atop the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number four destroyed in ...

Video: For some it was a disaster zone - for others, Chernobyl was the home they would ... been put into place over what was the concrete 'sarcophagus' installed in 1986 which had deteriorated.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ...

A European-backed venture foresees construction of a new shell over Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor ... A makeshift shelter or 'sarcophagus' erected over the damaged reactor within eight months of ...

The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst ...

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear ... the protective Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus was ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These ...

engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control room of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. A member of staff at the plant from 1982, he became a witness to the immediate ...

When it's finished, the curved confinement will be moved gently over rails to cover the sarcophagus and dilapidated reactor building ... of the fourth unit at Chernobyl from 1986 shows the ...

When Moscow’s forces attacked the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4, 2022 ... infamous decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant and sarcophagus. By March 9, Chernobyl ...

This year marks Chernobyl ... 40-year old reactors, which were due for decommissioning at the end of this month. The Fukushima nuclear incident will likely be upgraded from level 4 to a 5 ...