Chernobyl

Ukrainian officials called for a cease-fire on Wednesday after warning that the sole electrical grid supplying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (CNPP) had been damaged amid the combat around Kyiv, the latest nuclear incident in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion. Ukraine foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed that the…

/ Shows / The Interview Issued on: 09/03/2022 - 20:23 11:31 THE INTERVIEW © FRANCE 24 In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna confirmed an attack from Russian forces on a children's hospital in the city of Mariupol, saying "there is no doubt this has been…

Choose your subscription Trial Try full digital access and see why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT For 4 weeks receive unlimited Premium digital access to the FT's trusted, award-winning business news Digital Be informed with the essential news and opinion MyFT – track the topics most important…

  7:41 PM / March 9, 2022 Up to 6,000 Russians have died since attack on Ukraine began, U.S. official estimates Between 5,000 and 6,000 Russian troops have been killed in the first two weeks of the invasion of Ukraine, a U.S. official estimated Wednesday. The official called them "very,…

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid. Emergency generators are now supplying backup power. The state communications agency says the outage could put systems for cooling nuclear material at risk. The…

Power has been entirely cut to the Chernobyl power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, and its security systems, Ukraine's energy operator Ukrenergo said Wednesday. The plant "was fully disconnected from the power grid," Ukrenergo said in a statement on its Facebook page, adding that military…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out. On April 26, 1986,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn yet in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Firefighters put out the blaze, and no…

Home News A screenshot from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's livestream during a fire following fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces. (Image credit: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Russian troops have seized Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after overnight shelling sparked a fire near one of the facility's reactors, which…

BANGKOK (AP) — Europe's largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling early Friday, sparking a fire and raising fears of a disaster that could affect all of central Europe for decades, like the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. Concerns faded after Ukrainian authorities announced that the fire had been extinguished,…