Chernobyl

A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 5, 2017.Gleb Garanich/Reuters Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comLVIV, Ukraine March 26 (Reuters) - Russian forces have taken control of Ukraine's Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, and three people were killed, Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted the local mayor as saying. The governor of Kyiv region,…

Russian forces have not only looted and destroyed a laboratory used to monitor nuclear waste at Chernobyl, but an undetonated rocket is now primed to explode at any minute in a Kharkiv nuclear facility, Ukrainian regulators said Wednesday. The country’s State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate said personnel checking out the nuclear…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 March 2022 / 1,965 Views Ukraine-based developer GSC Game World at the beginning of March paused development on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl while its home country of Ukraine is being invaded by Russia. The studio has been focused on helping its employees and…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 8:37 Lviv, Mar 23: Russian military forces have destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that among other things works to improve management of radioactive waste, the Ukrainian state…

Russian military forces have destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that among other things works to improve management of radioactive waste, the Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said Tuesday. The Russian military seized the decommissioned plant at the beginning of the war.…

Dozens of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant employees who were forced by Russian troops to stay at the facility for 600 hours were finally allowed to leave Sunday. Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, welcomed the workers’ release, but warned that it was long overdue. The…

MANAGEMENT OF THE Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, said that 50 staff members who had been on the job since the plant was seized by Russian forces on February 24 have been rotated out and replaced. Officials had repeatedly expressed alarm that…

Placeholder while article actions load Exhausted technical staffers at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who have worked for more than three weeks without a break while Russian troops have occupied the facility, were able to change shifts and go home, the plant said. About 300 people — including technicians,…

Before Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine last month, Olena Pareniuk and Kateryna Shavanova worked at Chernobyl studying microorganisms in the exclusion zone and those living in the radioactive lava inside the site’s collapsed No. 4 reactor. Both are currently in Ukraine (Shavanova is in Kyiv while Pareniuk is…