A RUSSIAN drone smashed into Chernobyl’s protective dome — fuelling fears the next strike could blow deadly radiation across Europe, a top Ukrainian official has warned. Maintenance boss Artem ...

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean lies the Marshall Islands, a picturesque paradise marred by a concrete dome filled with deadly nuclear waste. Known as the Runit Dome, this massive structure was ...

The timing is sensitive as the incident comes against the backdrop of the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of world leaders meant to hash out paths to ending the nearly three-year war.

Russia promptly accused Ukraine of planning the Chernobyl attack as a “false flag” operation. A Russian drone is reported to have struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's concrete ...

A drone armed with an explosive warhead pierced the containment shell over Chernobyl's melted-down nuclear reactor early on Friday morning, causing a small fire but major concerns for peace prospects.

Nuclear fallout can have a lasting impact on surrounding communities and environments. Some animal species near nuclear sites are still found to be radioactive.

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed Friday that a drone attack damaged an outer wall of the protective dome containing the remains of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear ...

Simon Evans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was head of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, which oversaw the construction of the protective dome in the 2010s.

An alleged drone struck the protective shell covering the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early Friday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is blaming Russia.

The Chernobyl plant used Soviet-era, graphite-moderated RBMK reactors, which lacked a modern containment structure – a concrete and steel dome designed to prevent any release of radiation.