A hole in the New Safe Confinement shelter was created by a drone with an explosive warhead in February.Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images A steel shield preventing radiation spread ...

The catastrophe that unfolded at Chernobyl in 1986 was supposed to be entombed behind layers of concrete and steel, a disaster frozen in time rather than a recurring threat. Now Ukrainian officials ...

The confinement facility “lost its primary safety functions” after a Russian drone strike in February, nuclear watchdog says. A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct ...

(CNN) — The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, ...

Oleksiy Breus was in Chernobyl's control room when disaster struck in 1986. Decades later, he shares the harrowing details of watching colleagues die from radiation poisoning while his own body bore t ...

A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore. The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety ...