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

Zelensky signs decree on opening access to Chernobyl exclusion zone KIEV, July 10. /TASS/. The European Union (EU) has officially passed the keys to the New Safe Confinement (sarcophagus ...

It is based on interviews with Chernobyl staff by third parties rather than the author himself, and the sense of drama here ...

The EU, which has so far committed the lion's share to Chernobyl-related projects, committed another €110 million for a new sarcophagus, sealing the damaged reactor at least until the end of the ...

To reduce the spread of radioactive contamination from the wreckage and protect it from weathering, the protective Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus was complete in December 1986. It also ...

Chernobyl's staff were keen to keep control ... trenches dug by the Russian military in the Red Forest Just outside the sarcophagus which protects the damaged nuclear reactor, Russian soldiers ...

The Shelter Object - also known as the 'sarcophagus' - still contains the molten core of ... and an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale. The International Chernobyl Cooperation ...

The sarcophagus cracked last year and is emitting radioactive gases. In 2011, the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the sarcophagus will be replaced with another shell financed by a multinational ...

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“We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of wa ...

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

Alla Kravchuk, the daughter of a former Chernobyl engineer, returns to her father's workplace as the huge mobile Sarcophagus built to cover the damaged reactor nears completion. Can the site of ...